Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your associates, my very keen appreciation of the regard thus manifested toward me. It is particularly gratifying to me to be so honored by a group of young men, naturally forward-looking, preparing for the serious tasks of life. There is a splendid opportunity before you to render signal service to your country by inculcating the sound principles of government associated with the name of the founder of our party. "Cordially yours, T. J. WALSH...
...fencing movements of his cane. Then, after everyone had trooped into the Reichstag Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German Republic was in session for the first time. The Communists evidently felt that this was a signal for celebration, for they broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing whistles. The remaining members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them out." Neither did Herr Bock diminish...
Meanwhile Otis and his brother Charles were writing a melodrama, The Red Signal, which eventually enjoyed a brief run in Chicago. Feeling the time was not ripe for him to embark by himself as a manager, Mr. Skinner joined forces with Edwin Booth, who was just past his prime and had begun to rest on his laurels. Shakespeare and Restoration Comedy were the order...
...over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union Switch and Signal Co., which manufactured railway equipment. In 1880 he met William Stanley, who had just invented a self-regulating dynamo for lighting service, and signed a contract with him to conduct experiments for the Union Switch and Signal Co. From this meeting dates the growth of the present Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing...
...Harvey needs no introduction to the American reading public. Signal as were his achievements in the field of diplomacy, it is as a journalist that he is best known to his countrymen. Successively staff-member of the Springfield Republican and Chicago Daily News; Managing Editor of The New York World [at 27]; President of Harper & Bros, and editor of Harper's Weekly; editor and publisher of the North American Review; editor and publisher of Harvey's Weekly, briefly epitomizes his journalistic career...