Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each class having a living member, and one for each of the graduate schools, whose alumni may not be graduates of Harvard College. The oldest classes will be placed at the head of the column, between University Hall and Weld Hall. The bugle will sound a ready signal at 9.40, and at a third signal, given at 9.45, the column, headed by the Class of 1860 and the Chief Marshal, will begin to march, in columns of four, into the Tercentenary Theatre...
...bellowed followers of Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine. The little man boarded one of two excursion boats moored at the pier. "We got the Body!" shouted Negroes hanging over her rails. Then Father Divine boarded the other boat whose passengers cried: "Now WE got the Body!" At a quiet signal from Harlem's benign cult leader the two boats churned out, headed up the Hudson...
...building, entered the publishing business with three profitable weekly papers. Last week, with its charter essentially unchanged and renewed for another ten years, B. B. C. entered its second decade, a British institution apparently as solidly established as Big Ben, whose booming it uses for a broadcast time signal...
...heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired, and Delbert Green's head jerked skyward, the crucifix dropped in the dirt. Physicians said that he died instantly...
...woman who had traveled all night to buy the Britannia's ship's bell was told that Queen Mary is keeping that and it was not for sale. In all, the auction netted close to $5,000. The King's signal flags will be draped in the taproom of an English inn; the 102-ft. solid pine mast is to be the flagpole of a country estate; and Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Brinton are taking home to South Africa two feather pillows upon which once lay the heads of King George & Queen Mary...