Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, at the end of the 9 o'clock news, Britain's most popular radio program, Chief Announcer Stuart Hibberd opened his mouth to announce something from BBC's unco-respectable studio. Just then a faulty light signal flashed-Off The Air! Listeners all over the United Kingdom thereupon heard, in cultured tones: What the hell?" (Observed the badly shaken BBC: "Involuntary...
...world grimly determined that nothing shall remain static, the change-weary veteran who returns to Cambridge finds here no "back-to-normalcy" balm. Wherever he looks he sees a college in flux. His departure, it would seem, was the signal for new and uncertain educational ventures...
...battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release-an arc of hundreds of arrows speeding with the twang of a gigantic guitar on their victorious way-is one of the most gratifying payoffs of suspense yet contrived...
...surface is columbium nitride cooled by liquid hydrogen to minus 432° F. At this temperature-close to absolute zero-columbium nitride becomes "superconductive"; its electrical resistance almost vanishes. When a heat ray hits it and warms it only one millionth of a degree, it gives a clear electrical signal...
...President went back over parts of his wage-price policy, gave Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles the signal to tell U.S. business the vastly complex new regulations under which it now must operate (see BUSINESS...