Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ready at the Brookline Bridge promptly at the appointed hour 4 p. m. The stern of each shell will be held from a boat attached to a rope stretched across the river. As soon as the shells are in position one long whistle will be blown as a preparatory signal. Twenty seconds after this signal, three short, sharp whistles will signify, "Are you ready...
...first starting signal (a gun shot) will be given at any moment after the three whistles...
...recall the shells, if necessary, the referee's tug will stop and the second barrel of the gun will be fired, but there can be no signal after ten strokes have been rowed...
...increasing position and power in fiction and the upon the whole salutary influence of that position. "The Hatred of England," by Goldwin Smith, rather exaggerates the extent of that hated which most of the readers of the Review doubtless find restricted to the ignorant masses. General Greely of the Signal Department, or as he is called, "Chief of the Weather Bureau," writes of the Mississippi Floods. Archdeacon Farrar in his paper, "A Few Words on Col. Ingersoll," calls that gentleman "a man of straw." Both Rev. Lyman Abbott in the April number, and Archdeacon Farrar in this, have considered...