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Word: signal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...planners statement, written by Alan McClennen '33, Cambridge Planning Director, said that a study by "the Cambridge Board and traffic director has shown that a $100,000 electronic signal system would accomplish substantially the same ends as the proposed $7 million expenditure for underpass construction...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: New Appointment Likely to Bolster Drive Against Underpass Proposals | 2/1/1965 | See Source »

...little freshman in a Perdoncini school is fitted with earphones into which a bass tone is fed at a volume that would be ear-shattering to a person with normal hearing. At first the sensation means nothing to the student. But he also gets a visual signal; a light flashes on along with the sound, and the teacher gestures with her hand to show that she has heard and seen. The youngster copies her and gestures with his hand to show that he, too, has heard and seen. Soon he learns to recognize the sound alone, and the visual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Otology: Not So Deaf, Not So Dumb | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...theoretical calculations done at Los Alamos. What Kiwi's flaming death proved was that if nuclear rockets are ever used in space, they will not need explosive charges to break them up after they are spent. They can be turned into small and relatively harmless particles by a signal commanding them to commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Energy: Destruction on Jackass Flats | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...purchase loans on those it has. Even so, Hall is so pleased with the line's improving image that he has increased advertising budgets 40% to publicize "the new Eastern" and is repainting Eastern's planes a bright, two-tone "Caribbean blue" and "stratosphere blue" to signal the change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The New Eastern | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...signal from outgoing Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges in Washington, the giant doors of the Douglas assembly hangar in Long Beach, Calif., opened this week and out rolled the first U.S. entry in a rising competition among international planemakers. The competition is a struggle to win the huge potential market for short-to medium-range jets for the world's airlines. The U.S. plane is the DC-9, a trim, red-white-and-blue craft that Douglas has rushed out a month ahead of schedule. And just in time, too: the British twin-jet BAC One-Eleven has been flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Jets for the Short Haul | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

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