Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheet was flown from the rear of the Weyerhaeuser home, visible far out on Puget Sound and apparently a signal to the kidnappers. Mrs. Weyerhaeuser departed for Seattle and two notices were published, according to the kidnappers' directions, in the Post-Intelligencer, the first saying, "expect to be ready to come Monday," the second pleading: "Due publicity beyond our control please indicate another method reaching you. Hurry relieve anguished mother." But the week-end passed without George's return. Of all George's friends and relations, most optimistic was his schoolteacher. Said she: "He has such...
...Ives, who was formerly in charge of experimental work in airplane photography for the aviation section of the U. S. Signal Corps, has been engaged in research in the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York since 1919. He was in charge of the work which culminated in the first demonstration of television by wire and radio...
...follows: Victim wraps his head in thick gauze, stretches out on couch. Phonograph plays soft symphonic music. Dr. Ujhely squirts two-three drops of jasmine or tuberose perfume on the masked face every minute for almost an hour. By & by the patient finds himself daydreaming. A gong softly gongs -signal for the patient to daydream about something else. Gong, gong, gong-reveries change. GONG-the patient deliberately muses about his nightmare, tells it to do its worst, "you're only a dream...
...Columbia University he founded the first student flying club, took the first Master of Arts degree ever given in Aeronautics (1910). He joined the Wright Brothers, became their general manager. In 1914 the U. S. Army Signal Corps made him its Chief Aeronautical Engineer. First thing he did was condemn all the Army's Wright and Curtiss pushers as unsafe to fly. After the War he founded his own company, built the world's first successful amphibian...
...Auden and Spender were dedicated to one Christopher Isherwood. Last week Author Isherwood appeared for the first time on the U. S. scene, partly returned his compatriots' compliment by dedicating The Last of Mr. Norris to W. H. Auden. To canny readers, this salute was as unmistakable a signal as a finger laid to the nose: Author Isherwood is a lad of the new day, and oldsters had best avoid him altogether or loosen their collars before they begin to read...