Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were present, and for ten days we presented evidence to what was practically an empty chamber. . . . Quit talking now, boys, and behave. ... An impeachment in this case will be notice to the country that the time has come when a corporation seeking refuge in Federal Court is not a signal to crooked lawyers to flock in and feast on the carcass...
...Jersey subsidiary testified in court at Elizabeth concerning the ingenious devices with which he had short-circuited or cut their high tension wires more than 20 times (TIME, Oct. 14, et ante). "He interrupted service to hospitals where operations were going on," cried an attorney. "He disrupted the signal service of a railroad, and he threw theatres and department stores and homes crowded with people into darkness...
...next heat. Out came Oil Tycoon Jacob France's big pointer, Kremlin, winner of many a lesser stake, to try once more for the blue ribbon of bird dogdom. But his seven years hung heavy upon him. When famed Handler Chesley Harris released him at the starting signal, Kremlin just stood there. Then he tried to start, but he had only three legs. A tendon had tied up. He hobbled out 75 yd. from the gallery, turned and looked back apologetically. Handler Harris had to take...
...eventually he caught the great Pompey and the millionaire Crassus in his net, became with them one of the three rulers of the Roman world. Then he went off to make his military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia. Caesar, "voted" dictator, was king in all but name. And when he fell, four years later, under the daggers...
...that his adored friend Hillier would double-cross him, thinks he would be unofficially glad to have his hand forced, plots a dangerous coup. Because he lets the wrong people in on his secret the plot is nipped in the bud. Sacker's arrest and execution is the signal for a general blood purge. Before it is over and England shudders into regimented quiet, Liberal Andrew is glad to make his escape to Norway, even though it means he will never see his own country again...