Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loeser and Hubbard, having recovered fully, participated in the signal drill, in which kicking and passing were stressed. Garvey, Ellis, Decker and Oldt may play Saturday despite injuries. Practice was held on Thompson Field, but tomorrow will be held in the Bowl behind closed doors...
Yesterday afternoon's session differed but little from the others this week, according to the meagre information released at the Locker Building after the workout. The official spokesman of the Athletic Association announced that there was another demonstration of Yale plays, followed by a signal drill for Teams A and B. No inkling as to the makeup of these two combinations could be gleaned, but a rumor was current that the first eleven is substantially the same as that which has carried Harvard hopes in the encounters so far this fall...
...short blackboard talk at which a number of new plays were given out, followed by a dummy scrimmage and signal drill comprised the general outline of the workout. The nature of the plays and the personnel of team A, besides the injury list, was kept under cover. Whether this is an indication that some change is being contemplated is a matter for conjecture...
Encouraged by this signal triumph, Mrs. Palmer sought other worlds to conquer. London beckoned. Forthwith she purchased a house on Carlton Terrace; flung down the gauntlet to Mrs. John W. Mackay for King Edward's favor, and the social leadership it carried. The tourney was magnificent. For one Arabian night's entertainment in 1909, Mrs. Palmer spent $10,000; for one season, $200,000. Discreet King Edward refused to discriminate; shared his attendance equally...
...Frederick August Kolster, who has contributed as much to radio as any man now alive, has invented yet another radio device, a machine for shooting a radio beam at whatever point on earth he pleases. His previous inventions have been the invaluable radio compass, the radio fog signal system, the mobile radio beacon to protect ships in fog, the decremeter which measures wave lengths and dampens radio oscillations, the Kolster radio receiving set. He created the Bureau of Standard's radio section and is its chief. He is chief research engineer of the Federal Telegraph Co. and its allied...