Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro delegates took their herding quietly. But before the Conference dispersed, after establishing itself as a permanent, continuing body, a signal resolution was passed without dissent: no future meetings for Human Welfare shall be held in any city having a Jim Crow...
This splurge was the signal for a general convention assault upon Ford Motor Co., only automaker not yet brought under U. A. W. contract. Mr. Martin has been dickering privately with Ford's Harry Bennett (TIME, Oct. 24, et seq.). In denouncing anti-union employers he conspicuously avoided mention of the Ford company. Others were not so coy, and C. I. O. pledged itself to boycott Ford products unless or until Henry Ford signs...
...daybreak each morning, 100 to 200 of the country's best-bred foxhounds, with identification numbers painted on their sides, lined up at the casting ground, their handlers behind them. At a signal from the purple-coated Master of Hounds, they were unleashed, followed by nine judges on horseback and, five minutes later, some 200 riders on mounts ranging from expensive hunters to plow-galled plugs...
...shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current, thus sparing the subject further shock. After a few experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness of the signal until the animal no longer responds by running. Dogs, which hear best, have about the same acuity as human beings...
...auspicious not only for the Debating Council, but also for the House Plan and Harvard at large. Signal is the addition it makes to the ledger of House activities. Of prime importance is the web it weaves to bind closer faculty and students by its plan of tutor participation. It will undoubtedly play an important part in the further development of the warm community spirit which is the ultimate goal of the House Plan...