Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind the bat Henry Chauncey '27, veteran receiver and star of Coach Horween's eleven last fall will wear his mask and mitt. In addition to his ability as a signal-caller Chauncey swings a powerful bat from the port side of the plate...
...children hastily set out with other refugees for an eminence known to ancient Chinese poets as The Purple Mountain and to moderns as Socony* Hill. Arrangements had already been made that U. S. and British warships in the harbor would lay a barrage to protect this valuable property-the signal for the barrage to be a rocket...
...That a signal honor has been paid to Professor Charles Homer Haskins, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at the University was learned last night when Professor M. C. Diehl visiting professor from the University of Paris announced the election of Professor Haskins as a foreign associate member of the Academie des Inscriptionset Belles Lettres a division of the Institut de France...
...filmy pajamas, in scantily cut bathing-suits, in practical running shorts and in ordinary clothes, 25,000 men and women ran scrambling forward at this signal to stake out claims in the Grasfontein diamond field (TIME, Feb. 7) that promises to yield $5,000,000 in hard, white, transparent, keep-sake-rocks...
...almost a month since a wave of international consciousness swept over the United States and so aroused the national conscience as to force the administration to abandon an ostensibly imperialistic policy toward Nicaragua. It seemed at the time a signal victory for public sentiment and for a public acumen not blinded by Secretary Kellogg's red flag waving. It also seemed that the Nicaraguans were to be allowed to fight it out among themselves or that some non-partisan steps toward mediation would be taken...