Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandon scouting. By scouting we mean the current practice of sending accredited agents to watch and report upon the system of play used by an opposing team. Just as signal stealing, once a common thing in football, was finally discredited by common agreement, in like manner scouting can be given the stamp of common disapproval...
...born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home themselves. The Chicago enthusiasts stopped short of this. But they held up the performance after she had sung the "Caro Nome," and gave Luella Melius ten curtain calls...
...withdrawal of George Owen, Jr. '23 and E. B. Dooley, former Dartmouth signal caller, from the list of platform speakers at the Debating Union's football forensic was announced with regret last night by the officers of the Debating Union. At the same time it has been announced that Morton Prince '75, one of the University's first gridiron heroes, has signified his intention of attending Wednesday's verbal clash; Major Frank W. Cavanaugh, Boston College gridiron mentor, is another added starter and will support the side favoring the continuance of the present over emphasis on football...
...copper box, 18 inches long, lined with tin, filled with relics of the Church, lists of contributors, newspapers, American coins. Then, while the people repeated the Lord's Prayer, the Bishop traced the sign of the cross upon the rock with his trowel; Architect Cram gave a signal to his men; the block and tackle twitched the stone aloft, lowered it reverently into place upon the box. Now there was only one more thing to do. The Bishop picked up a heavy mahogany mallet. Three times he smote the stone and in reverberating accents intoned...
Nothing more than signal drill is scheduled for the University today, but the blackshirts will probably put on a series of Yale plays for the benefit of the first-string...