Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment it swung there perilously; then its motor took hold and it careered away, maneuvering all about the big dirigible, sniffing at air pockets, nosing through patches of heathery cloud, like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane was hooked by a special apparatus, hoisted to the trapeze, lifted back into the body of the dirigible...
...Coolidge autographed a picture of the White House and presented it to a local Presbyterian Church, where it will be auctioned at a bazaar, and the proceeds sent to Persia for the support of missionaries. She also lit two candles in a White House window as a signal for the opening of the sale of "Christmas seals" by the National Tuberculosis Association. ¶ "To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting...
...only really interesting point of the examination, although it had small direct bearing on the case, came when the prosecutor read testimony given by Colonel Mitchell, then a signal corps officer, before a Congressional Committee in 1913. In the 1913 testimony Mitchell opposed a separate Air Service, and condemned disgruntled officers for making statements which might disorganize the service...
Ergo, Señor Leguía is even now forced to maintain an elaborate system of private guards and espionage to protect his life. Often it has been asked whether such an absolutist can justify his rule. Always Leguía has been able to point to his signal achievements in administering the finances of the republic and extending its commercial prosperity. Today he is in the habit of asserting that the national debt of Peru is smaller per capita than that of any other nation. Often he remarks with satisfaction upon the large investments of U. S. capital...
...point opposite each semaphore. A pick-up coil is placed under part of the locomotive. When passing over the magnet in the roadbed, this pick-up coil receives the impulse, which in turn is communicated to the apparatus on the engine controlling the air brakes. If the signal is set at "caution" or "danger," the magnet reflects that indication and the speed of the train is automatically reduced. If the engineer does not heed this warning but allows his train to pass to a zone nearer the danger, a second magnet further reduces the speed. At the nearest point...