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telegram

[tel-i-gram] / ˈtɛl ɪˌgræm /


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A telegram in the same files shows a doctor from Cornwall, who was treating a 10-year-old child in 1944, pleading with the authorities for the medicine: "No hope without penicillin".

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025

“The Queen and Elton John sent me a telegram of congratulations - my mum and dad were interviewed all week - it was a big thing.”

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024

Posters in Detroit depicting a military man resembling Hitler were ordered, by telegram, to be destroyed.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

While serving in the Navy in 1919, Wallace got a telegram from Carewe to come to Hollywood, where he began work as a second-unit director on his brother’s films.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024

On Saturday, soon after receiving Ferris’s congratulatory telegram, Rice cabled back that in fact the first car already had been hung.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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