Word: blinker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Construction of an elaborate system of traffic islands and blinker lights began yesterday in Harvard Square and promises to create bedlam for the next two weeks. the new lights and islands will implement the city's plan to turn the Square into a rotary traffic circle, a plan that is now being given a 30-day experimental trial. Success of the whole plan hinges on the ability of large trucks and trackless trolleys coming into the square from the Central square end of Mass. Avenue to negotiate the sharp turn around the subway kiosk...
Harvard will start its usual first team to oppose this juggernaut. Wally Sears, generally the squad's most frequent blinker of the red light, will start at left wing, alongside center Dave Key and right wingman Shaw McKean...
...qualify, officers must have been lieutenants senior grade for 24 to 29 months, "while their civilian contemporaries in the Army have become colonels and brigadier generals." They will be entitled to wear a neon star with blinker, and cap covers with a center rosette ringed with a one-half-inch band of phosphorescent material. Shirt collars and cuffs will be distinguished by a lacy fringe or fray and tinted a darker hue. (No pay increase is contemplated...
Ping-Pong Gun, Portable Planetarium. The air branches of the services became the prime movers in the synthetic devices program. They have invented thousands of efficient gadgets, many of them still secret, ranging from a cardboard pocket blinker for practicing ship signals to a portable planetarium. Some others...
...ahead the bulky, unmistakable shape of a battleship winks a bright orange light. Then the soft thudding slap comes over the water: that blinker was a 14-inch salvo. Cruisers, battlewagons and tin cans are standing in amazingly close to the shore, pounding away with all their guns. We knew the island was to catch some 12,000 rounds of projectiles, 5-inch or bigger. But that was just a statistic; now we see it. We hear the blast of the big guns and the ripping-silk sound of the heavy shells sailing to their targets. We see the warships...