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Word: signal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner will be semi-formal, with all the members of the house sitting at long tables. It is hoped that all the men can go in together when lights turned on the tower signal that the doors are open. The Reverend Samuel A. Eliot '84 will then ask the blessing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

...played the lead in the European version. In his first appearance on the U. S. screen, Actor Walbrook's performance suggests that he will be almost as good an investment for the long pull as the picture is for a quick turn. Most spectacular shot: Ogareff's signal to his troops to charge Irkutsk-an oil-flooded river in flames below the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 15, 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...Reports, Inc. sells the statistical service through 16 branch offices in the U. S. and Canada. Publishers' Financial Bureau distributes the founder's views to 400 newspapers. A. P. W. Paper Co. (paper towels) is Babson-dominated, as is Gamewell Co., which makes fire and burglar alarms, signal systems, automatic sprinklers. Babson Institute is an endowed, non-profit-making business school with a 300-acre campus and ten buildings in Babson Park, Mass. where all Babson activities in Wellesley Hills are concentrated. The Institute now has 130 students including sons of President Benjamin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Propheteer | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...under the collar was the chief's implication that the Court caused the Mississippi flood. That would be a pretty tall order for even fifteen not-so-old men, and it seems to us the kind of thing that no mortal has been able to accomplish since the signal failure of King Canute, hundreds of years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radiovoter | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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