Word: sig
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William S. Thompson, Western Union telegraph operator, last week announced the invention of a device that will transmit distress sig- nals (or any other messages) automatically, thus releasing the oper- ator from his duty of signaling for help even while the ship sinks. It can be used on airplanes as well...
Last week, when the Kingsway came to anchor off Staten Island, N. Y., Federal men took Mr. Battice ashore to be tried for murder, with Donkeyman Badke a material witness and statutory offender. Seamen Hans Malibar, Frederick Kline, Alex Christiansen, Sig Scvhwanborg and Erik Anderson, with Thomas Murray, acting first mate and onetime bosun, were held pending formal entry of the almost obsolete charge, "mutiny on the high seas...
...once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book of a charity home that she herself had founded in his diocese. The Bishop, in short, was keenly interested in Society; he knew Society; he would be able to clarify the special sig nificance of this ducal affair. Before a congregation of 1,000 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bishop delivered himself. "This action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others...
...national efforts, from 1917 to 1921, the peoples of the world have been educated to understand the scope of our national demand. The moment England by threats had secured Irish sig natures to her so-called treaty, the organs of English propaganda through out the world were concentrated on making it appear that our national demand was conceded and Irish national aspirations were fully satisfied...