Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-mile from the Niobe was the little steamer Therese Russ. Her Captain Mueller leaned over the bridge admiring the sight of the great airship over the picturesque windjammer. Signal flags ran up the Niobe's mast: "Who Are You?'' "Where Are You From?" "Where Are You Bound?" He called a quartermaster to open the flag locker to reply just as a great black squall struck the little barkentine...
First noise in the ceremony was the thump of a drum outside the stadium. This was the signal for Vice President Curtis to walk across the field, sit down with the members of the Olympic Committee. After a choir of 1,000, dressed in white, had sung the ''Star-Spangled Banner," came the parade of athletes. First in the parade were the Greeks; then in alphabetical order, came the Argentines, in green coats and white trousers, the Australians, in white suits and sun helmets, the Canadians, in bright red coats, and a single Egyptian, wearing a red fez and carrying...
...Nelson, the Rodney, the Hood and the Renown (together the most powerful fighting unit in the world) escorted the Royal Yacht which flew the Royal Standard (embellished with seven lions and a harp). At a signal from the King Emperor destroyers led the attack on an imaginary foe. "Enemy" destroyers fired dummy torpedoes against the Hood and the Renown, near enough for His Majesty to see. Finally the battleships Warspite, Malaya and Valiant opened up with real broadsides, fired salvo after salvo from their 15-in. guns at a target ten miles away, made so much noise that they were...
...Davison made a little speech, fired a little pistol. "Walk!" shouted Pilot Eaton to the shock-cord crew. After they had begun to walk, stretching the elastic cord, he cried "Run!" Down the hill they ran for ten paces or so, stretching the cord tauter. Then-"Go!" At that signal the sailplane was snapped free of its anchorage, sailed out from the brow of the hill like a stone from a boy's slingshot. Headed into the teeth of a 30 m. p. h. wind, Unguentine zoomed up 175 ft. without advancing more than 50 ft. Pilot Eaton landed...
...near Drysdale, thinking it was Melville Island. They had a few biscuits, no water. For days they tramped the bush in search of water and friendly natives, later drank the contents of the plane's radiator. On several occasions they plodded miles to what they thought was a signal fire, arrived exhausted to find an unattended bush fire. They "caught lizards on the rocks, which we ate raven ously." They fashioned a raft from one of their seaplane floats, paddled for five days in a rough sea, saw a steamer pass within a mile of them. Hunger drove them...