Word: signalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important of all to the success of the demonstration was one Charles Shep herd Hutson. Los Angeles lithographer and grand jury foreman. His duty it was to stand back on the platform and hold up a series of numbered placards, to signal for the band, the lights, the balloons, the organ, etc., etc. as they had been carefully scheduled to sustain a half-hour "demonstration." When he held up the placard numbered "1" and blew a whistle, the band, poised at an exit with Governor Rolph at its head, marched on the floor. Organized pandemonium broke loose...
...given a full hour in which to talk and if he talks only 45 or 50 minutes B. B. C. is not in the least perturbed, merely turns on what British listeners call "The Ghost in Galoshes." This is a clock which ticks seconds, known officially as "The Interval Signal." The box in which it nestles with a microphone is known unofficially as "Studio...
...Witchcraft in Old and New England, the Old Farmer and his Almanack, and many others, ranging through all periods of the language. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature, as well as being the recipient of many signal honors in this country...
...Department is absolutely right in its refusal to release the gruesome Signal Corps official photographs of mutilations, putrified dead and other war horrors to amuse the morbidly curious. It seems unbelievable that the people whom these men died so horribly to defend would want to gloat over these pictures and ridicule these heroic dead, or that a publisher would exploit them...
...under the steel cars became attentive. Attentive also to what was going to happen at the quarries were scientists tending earthquake recorders at Madison, Wis., Ann Arbor, East Lansing, St. Louis, Buffalo, New York City, Washington. Chronometers of everyone interested were set to check with a radioed time signal from the Naval Observatory at Washington...