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telegraphically
adverb
In a telegraphic manner; concerning telegraphy
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The Teletypesetter (TTS) system extends to slugcasting machines the principle of separation of function originally characteristic of the Monotype: it enables Linotype or Intertype machines to be controlled by a perforated tape produced on a separate keyboard, even situated in a different city, since the combination of the perforations on the tape can be sent telegraphically.
This has been obtained since 1884 by using an accurate chronometer that is checked at least once a day against time signals transmitted telegraphically over land lines and submarine cables or broadcast by radio.
Later much of the copper cable, needed to connect the world telegraphically was also produced there.
The information is crisp but telegraphically compact.
"I bid you... wel-come!" Christopher Lee, by comparison, is telegraphically brisk.
A writer fanatically, almost telegraphically terse, he has not flinched from the litanies of verbal repetition, the Homeric otioseness of fixed epithets that children exact so severely from candidates for the honour of amusing them.
But the telegraphically short Koranic phrase is not straightforward.
By Harold Ross The New Yorker, October 7, 1933 P. 16 One of the many Ring Lardner anecdotes is about a happening in Boston, where he had been telegraphically summoned by Florenz Ziegfeld to do emergency patchwork on a musical show about to face the test of Broadway.
This was in the case of a friend of ours who in early youth got involved with a rotary saw, a fact telegraphically noted by the examiner as "2 fngrs.
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He announces, among other things, "I annoy everyone" and "Jazz toppled the waltz … you write 'telegraphically' or you don't write at all".
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