Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of Rosenbaum was on every broker's tongue one morning last week when, precisely at 9 o'clock, the great 1,500-lb. bronze bell on the trading floor boomed not once-the signal for trading to begin-but five times. High up in the visitor's gallery an official uprose to bellow that the market would not open until later in the morning. At 12:30 it was announced that because of peculiar circumstances the market would not open...
Even if the back of Old Man Depression can be broken at last by a signal from Congress, as the statement of the manufacturers declares, it seems hardly likely that such a signal will be given. It is possible that the roseate hopes of the Association of Manufacturers would be realized, with a new flurry of prosperity following the castration of the social security program. If there is any virtue in lessons of the past, it does not seem worth the price...
...flash of a firefly is a mating call. The unfertilized female waits in the grass, flashes in answer. In one common species, investigators have found that the male flashes regularly once every 5.7 sec. and" Mr. Buck discovered that the female replies 2.1 sec. later. Exchange of signals continues until they meet & mate. But other males may join the quest for the same female, and in answering her they get their flashes into phase with the first suitor on the scene. By selecting a cruising male and responding to its signal with a flash from an electric torch...
...apparent purpose of the players is to drown each other. Rules do not limit the length of time a player may be held under water if he holds the ball or is within four feet of it. When a player feels about to drown he can give the "busy signal," i. e., pinch the man who is holding him and be released immediately. Able water polo players rarely do such a thing. Because water poloists are always extracted quickly when they sink, none has ever drowned. There are not more than a few thousand athletes in the U.S. capable...
...Ruddy Sr. is completely bald, massive as a seal, mottled as though he had been under water for years. Actually, his underwater record is only 3 min. 19 sec. He claims that, in his lifetime of water polo, he never gave a "busy signal." He attributes his family's success to a diet prescribed by Mrs. Ruddy, no smoking or drinking by any Ruddy, the fact that the Ruddys never overdo. That N. Y. A. C. water polo teams, since the game was imported by an Englishman named Fred Wells in 1885, have been the best...