cablegram

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Moves are communicated over long distances — in less technologically savvy times often by handwritten mail or cablegram — and each player has days to make a move.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2012

President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import.

From Time Magazine Archive

But chance and another cablegram offer the two lovers a second opportunity.

From Time Magazine Archive

The raising and negotiation of this problem cannot be made only by cablegram, and it is better that a delegation should be sent to Cuba.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz