Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wishing to change the subject, but deeming it the discreet thing to do, your scuttle broker once thought that one of the funniest things he had ever seen was Zemlin, the gremlin, playing tangle-foot with the signal flags not so long ago in S.C.A. Funny, but it ain't half so funny any more. Hanged if that muslin can't get aggravatingly hard to handle with about 270 wolves howling...
...some time now that Weilepp is a married guy now. Several weeks ago we had all the details jotted down, and then plumb forgot to write them up in the smooth log for publication, the scratch-paper memorandum coyly hiding amongst the stile smoker cigars, sawed-off pencils, signal cards, tooth branch, oranges--Lanka, shoe polish, clothes brush, collar devices, tobacco grains and ink bottle in the drawer. We apologize to Patricia Sanborn, the bride, and formerly of the Harvard library...
...suggested that: (1) someone be at home when the delivery is expected. (2) the mail-carrier make a signal when he leaves the check. (3) the letter be removed from the box immediately. (4) the postmaster be informed of any temporary or permanent change of address...
Brigadier General John Franklin, Chief of the Water Division, Office of Chief of Transportation, was president of the U.S. Lines. Major General William H. Harrison, Deputy Chief Signal Officer, was engineering vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Brigadier General Carl R. Gray Jr., Director General of the North African military railroads, was executive vice president of Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway...
...teams that guide the massed Fortress flights over Europe. Such teams are used sparingly; on them depends the mission's success, for under the new bombing system only the bombardier of the lead Fortress and a few others scattered through the formation do the actual sighting; at their signal the other planes drop their bombs...