Word: marker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the U. S., from Vermont to Utah, stretches a chain of 80-odd monuments, testimony of the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the East, and its long trek westward a century ago in search of religious and economic freedom. A notable marker is the one on the hill east of Salt Lake City where Brigham Young first gazed over the Salt Lake Valley, exclaimed: 'This is the place!" This small stone, it was announced last week, is to be replaced next year by a monument more fitting to the great occasion...
...first 1941 line Sank its last tally on a long scorcher by Hulse from the center of the rink that whipped through Katzenback, enemy goalie. Coach Hodder at this point inserted his reserves. Exeter, with three seconds to go, made her fifth marker against the new lineup...
...Davies of Washington Institute of Technology, Harry Diamond of the National Bureau of Standards, and the Bureau of Air Commerce radio development chief, W. E. Jackson. It consists of three radio transmitters, one to send a radio course beam, one to send a glide beam, and a radio marker beacon. Beacon, transmitters are housed in an automobile trailer that can be moved to the various runways on the landing field. The marker beacon is installed at the end of the runway...
...cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down the beams. As he passes the boundary of the airport at a known altitude the marker beacon signals his position. Whatever the weather, the pilot, eyes only on his instruments, theoretically lands his ship surely and safely on the runway...
When the Elis returned just before the end of the Jayvee game, they found their two crimson-colored busses could not move. Parked cars hemmed them in on three sides. In front was a row of white marker posts...