Word: signal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revival of a system of student waiters which will go into effect this fall is one of the signal steps inaugurated under the regime of W. W. Daly '14, Secretary for Student Employment. The new system, while its development is to be gradual, will provide material enlargement of the opportunity for men to earn their way through college, should it prove successful...
...Eskimo sailor had deserted in mid-Arctic, taking a gun and scoop shovel. Signal lights were left out for him and after several days mushing in the icepack he returned, sadder, wiser...
...consensus of opinion that the stockmarket should give the first warning signal of coming deflation, and that the key to the stockmarket lies in the money market. But the money situation is still unique in U. S. history; its unused resources of credit are still so great that it is as important to determine what Federal Reserve officials think of things as to juggle with endless statistics. At present glance, it seems likely that the top of the bond market has been reached, and that money rates will firm slightly this fall...
Canadian Open. Clinking their shooting irons, winking covertly at one another, a band of U. S. marauders crossed the Canadian border. At a given signal, the wooded hills and dales of the Lambton Country Club (Toronto, Ont.) rang with shots. Staunch Canadian pars dropped on all sides. In the first nine-hole skirmish of the Dominion open championship, defending Champion Leo Diegel (of Great Neck, L. I.) so ventilated his scorecard that it totaled but 32 shots. A 37 in and he tied the course record, led the field. Brazen-faced Walter Hagen, chin higher than ever, touched...
...pain filled the Chamber. A dozen Deputies scuffed on the floor kicking, pushing, slapping. President Herriot, having worn himself out calling for order, put on his silk hat and betook his full-dressed self from the Chamber as a sign that the session was suspended. It was also a signal for the attendants to clear the public galleries. An excited attendant, with marks of a maturing black eye, rushed to the signal box and instead of pushing the button to signal the sergeants-at-arms to clear the galleries, he pressed one that called out the guard. For some minutes...