Word: signal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tuner in the living room, though the rest of the equipment is permanently stationed in the basement. Next to the main control panel down there are jacks which allow selection of any combination of speakers. All cable between components are of a special capacitance type which prevents a signal loses or distortions between units...
...before, he would have knocked down Williamson, the Lieutenant of the Tower, for his ill usage of him. . . . Then he lay down; but being told he was on the wrong side, vaulted around, and immediately gave the sign of tossing up his arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle...
...John E. McCarthy, Safety Officer, said, "we understand about the shortest distance between two points and all that, but we are concerned about the students' complete disregard for city and state regulations." Failure to signal and observe one-way restrictions have created the most serious problems in the past...
...Fearful of the Queen's safety, Macmillan dispatched Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys once again to Ghana to see if the outbursts of violence warranted the cancellation of the visit. After satisfying himself that the Queen would be safe, Sandys flew back to London with the go-ahead signal...
...same vein, Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, drew a distinction between speaker decisions and listener decisions. In a action in which there is "a lot of noise and very little signal," Bruner said, the impulse of the instructor is to tune out the noise. Instead, "he should cultivate the patience of a Job" in order not to force the student back into listener-ship...