Word: signal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program was Dr. LeCorbeiller's unveiling of his new secret weapon, the Super Band-pass Distortion Eliminator, Deluxe Model. Dr. LeCorbeiller explained his invention in his usual clear manner, so that everyone could understand. The audience was mystified. It was a graphic demonstration of Dr. LeCorbeiller's favorite subject, Signal Distortion, in which, from a mere bull fiddle, the inventor produced the sound of a complete brass band...
Washington and London had expected Generals de Gaulle and Giraud to tangle disruptively over the Liberation Committee's recent purge of elderly and ex-Vichyite officers. But the French leaders were more concerned with the war's trend, and in their concern De Gaulle won a signal diplomatic victory-still without benefit of tact. France's united front was a bid for recognition and participation in any Allied peace negotiations with Italy. Said Commissioner of Information Henri Bonnet: "I hope [the new accord] will have a good effect on ... the U.S. and Britain. . . . Nonrecognition will not prevent...
Carrying lightweight portable radios borrowed from the U.S. Forest Service, fire-control parties went ashore in the first waves, one party to each assault battalion. With them were Army Signal Corps officers...
...Invitation carried on, with the best players and the plushiest audience. The manners of that audience have always been notorious. On the dot of the bathing hour, no matter whose the match and what the score, a sizable group of spectators would retire from the stand as if by signal. Jay Gould would stamp through the festive crowds to the court-tennis court without so much as a glance at the lawn-tennis champions. The champions themselves paused between games to sip a Scotch & soda, a conviviality not unwelcome to the youthful Irish shackers (ball boys) in their cocky yachting...
...this and other odd reasons (wet leaves on rails causing driving wheels to skid, burned-out signal lights, removing stub born drunks from trains, and stalled automobiles from grade crossing), 3,278 out of 21,646 passenger trains were late during the month...