Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been told that the blood would leave one arm and go to the other. The operator has then massaged one arm and the blood has drained into the other arm until the arms presented a shocking contrast in red and white. Red and white they remained until the signal was given. Then the blood was seen to flow slowly back until both arms were the same color. The mechanism of this is unknown but the fact has been demonstrated repeatedly...
...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
Frank O. Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861, and was educated in Iowa. In 1886 he moved to Chicago to study law. After he received his bar diploma, he practiced law in Chicago with signal success: His first dash into politics was a failure; he was defeated for the gubernatorial nomination in the Illinois State convention. Two years later he was elected to the House of Representatives and there he stayed...
After this, the chase begins in earnest. There is an excellent scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...
Harvard men throughout the world, dismayed by news that Professor Charles Townsend Copeland ("Copey") had resigned, took heart again last week. For a quarter century the light in Hollis 15 was a signal to Harvard generations that the wit of the Yard was receiving his friends, was perhaps also giving one of his famous impromptu readings. Last week news came that the light will continue to burn. Professor Copeland will keep his rooms, will occasionally lecture-will inevitably "read aloud from a book." Wrote Author Conrad Aiken in the Harvard Crimson: ". . . One of those resignations of which the acceptance...