Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work is regarded by authorities as a signal triumph of laboratory and mathematical skill over one of the most complex problems in electrical engineering posed before this generation...
Himelhoch, chairman of the Harvard delegation, explained last night that by scattering the contingent throughout the hall and having it rise as a body at a given signal, one member could generally be recognized, and then yield the floor to any other member who had a speech to make. Opposition to such tactics was short-lived, he said, since it was shown that parliamentary procedure sanctioned them...
Last spring amid the magnificence of the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office in London, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis achieved a signal triumph in international relations. He got 21 other nations to join with the U. S. in signing a pact controlling world sugar production for five years (TIME, May 10). Last week the U.S. Senate ratified the pact and simultaneously the Agricultural Adjustment Administration announced 1938 quotas for U. S. sugar imports and production. U. S. sugarmen found the former event more pleasing than the latter...
...until the agents had spent $10,000 and almost two years laying their plans did Government officials give the signal to draw in the net last week. New York and Brooklyn provided the biggest haul-five Tong members, ten of their white friends, and one extraneous Chinese. Two Tongmen were arrested in Chicago, one Yee Haim, ex-national president of the Hip Sings in Pittsburgh, two in San Francisco, and two-Chin Joo Hip and Chin Joo Hip Jr.-in Butte. Perimeter of the wide circle of underworld associations of which Chin Joo Hip was the hub appeared...
Funniest scenes: Actor Howard shocking a stuffy breakfast group with a Shakespearean outburst on an improperly cooked kipper; Comic Blore trying to signal his master by frantic birdcalls, over determined competition from a nearby aviary...