Word: signal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beware, ye demons of a vanishing Empire! We warn officers of the British Government always to move about armed. At a signal we will kill marked officers. Congressmen [members of the Indian National Congress] do not interfere without solemn duties...
There will be no scrimmage or other strenuous work-outs, the training consisting mostly of passing, signal drills on the basic plays, kicking practice, and occasionally some basketball games to keep the men in trim. Football shoes will be the only equipment given...
...appearance of the President's Report is always the signal for a momentary halt in the academic whirl, when old values and traditions are weighed, new ideas discussed, and approved or rejected. In his report Mr. Lowell, speaking of the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences, said that "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." To better secure this end he suggested to the Governing Boards that a Society of Fellows be established, composed of brilliant young men, for the purpose of furthering an atmosphere of intellectual...
Anniversary. Of the first transatlantic wireless signal, picked up by Guglielmo Marconi at St. John's, Newfoundland, 30 years ago; celebrated-with the greatest world-round radio hook-up ever effected. Recalling the event, Senator Marconi said that for six days, while "S" signals were being sent regularly from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, he and his assistants sent up kites and a balloon with aerial wires attached. A wild December storm raged, carried the balloon and most of the kites away. Finally a kite was flown successfully and on Dec. 12, above the electrical disturbances, three faint clicks came through...
...many years constituted a serious problem. That drastic innovations in secondary school education were necessary to bridge the gulf was clearly apparent to the great educational figures of the day. Yet who would be willing to take the first step in a new and dangerous direction? The signal honor fell upon Exeter, when Edward S. Harkness, with superb generosity donated millions to the Academy last fall to inaugurate an entirely new era in secondary school education. The super-generous gift of Mr. Harkness was doubtless inspired by the feeling that the cultivation of the individual was being neglected...