Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Carrying out a tradition more than a century old, His Majesty's Faithful House of Commons petitioned George V to bestow "some signal mark of favor" on the retiring Speaker of the House, firm, courteous, precise John Henry Whitley (TIME, July...
...Album is being printed by the Andover Press, which has brought out many albums in the past and which recently achieved a signal typographical success with the 1931 Freshman Red Book. Engravings for the Album were done by the Wright Engraving Company, and the individual and group photographs were taken by Notman's Studio. The Senior Album Committee, in charge of the publication of the book, is composed of T. H. Eliot '28, C. R. Pforzheimer '28. A. M. Blackburn '28, R. T. Dunn '28, and H. W. Bragdon...
...means less capital, fewer workers, big savings. All-wool unfinished broadcloth and blankets have been made and according to optimistic reports cannot be differentiated from their loom-woven relatives. The finer fabrics, requiring more rows of shorter stitches to the inch, are still a problem. Toot-Light. Changing the signals automatically at regular time intervals at the intersection of a main highway and a less heavily traveled road would congest the highway for the sake of a possibly empty side-road. Charles Adler, Baltimore signal engineer, has invented a device which interrupts the heavy traffic only when necessary. A three...
...familiar tremorless way: "We used to have green colors hung in the President's room, but some smooth-fingered fellow near Alfred thought he would hang the room in red, the cardinals colors, so as to be ready for Al." The fact is that green to red is the signal from stop to go, and shows nothing more dangerous than the immutable Coolidge cast of mind, relieved by a certain love of symbolism in surroundings...
...That is a lie. To vindicate himself, Brother Joel again sails to Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land and sea, Brother Mark is killed while embracing the cause of Brother Joel. That is the signal for Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford to give each other a buss over the dead body of ugly Ernest Torrence...