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- noun Plural form of
telegrapher .
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Examples
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At the end of the week, as had been prearranged, the telegraphers of Germany and the United
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The latter had remembered the general strike, and had guarded against the defection of the telegraphers by installing wireless stations, in the control of the Mercenaries.
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An attempt had been made to place army telegraphers in the telegraph offices, but the wires had been cut in every direction.
THE DREAM OF DEBS 2010
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And third, the introduction of our own secret agents into every branch of the Oligarchy -- into the labor castes and especially among the telegraphers and secretaries and clerks, into the army, the agents-provocateurs, and the slave-drivers.
Chapter 16: The End 2010
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When operated by well-trained optical telegraphers, the system was extraordinarily quick.
Boing Boing 2009
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Not a train ran, not a telegraphic message went over the wires, for the telegraphers and railroad men had ceased work along with the rest of the population.
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Even when the telegraphers disconnected the batteries powering the lines, aurora-induced electric currents in the wires still allowed messages to be transmitted!
DK Matai: Could Super Solar Flares Take Us Back To 5000 BC? 2010
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Jepsen has lots of links to autobiographies and oral histories of women telegraphers, particularly out West their stories are maybe not exactly as shown in The Hazards of Helen.
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Jepsen has lots of links to autobiographies and oral histories of women telegraphers, particularly out West their stories are maybe not exactly as shown in The Hazards of Helen.
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I do like the reference to the ‘hand,’ the personal style of the telegraphers.
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