Word: signaler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year besides with a barest minimum of error. Last week our circulation people in New York celebrated the 2,000,000 domestic milestone by inviting a hot jazz combo to the TIME & LIFE Building lobby for a midday jam session. At 540, many expected those electronic units to signal the event by lighting up like a pinball machine in a Saroyan play - but the machines went on unemotionally, clocking their way toward TIME'S third million...
Every time the train halted at a small town, a horde of black jerseys would descend and startle the natives with a quick signal and passing drill. Between stops, the players would do calisthenics in the aisles, and if the train broke down, they would dash outside to do wind sprints while repairs were being made...
...convalescence from his heart attack, the President's doctors had reported nothing but cheerful news and steady progress, and Ike, in an ebullient mood, had every reason to expect another green light. Instead, after a two-hour examination at Walter Reed Army Hospital, the doctors flashed a caution signal. The President, they said, was showing signs of fatigue. His heart may be slightly enlarged. The period of convalescence would be extended, and for the next few weeks, Ike's official activities would be cut back to allow more relaxation and rest...
...idea behind the regulation was to prevent one station's signal from encroaching on the signal of any other. Admittedly, this is a good law, and many stations guilty of this trespassing have rightly been ordered to stop broadcasting. But WHRB is not bothering anyone. It is located at the very bottom of the dial, and other stations have never complained of its signal...
...WHRB was forced to close down because of "over-radiating;" for the FCC to suspend it again because of its signal has been stronger than the rule book allows would needlessly inconvenience an entire College community. If WHRB were infringing on another's rights, suspension would be justified. But under the present circumstances the suspension represents not praiseworthy alertness in execution of the law, but merely a bureaucratic nuisance...