Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem is one of expediency. The U. S. sends many things to France that, on account of superior production facilities, cannot be duplicated so cheaply in Europe. When there is no intent to protect home industry, if the policy of protection must indeed be pursued, it would seem a signal lack of judgment to discriminate against U. S. goods in order to favor some other nation...
...harbor was very quiet for a few minutes; it was only a little after five o'clock but you could hear dishes rattling in the galley of the Marques del Duero and the sudden high voice of the cook cry out, as if the curse were a signal, "C a r a j o!" One of the men on the Olympic's bridge rubbed his cheek and said: "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." At half past seven the firing-stopped because Commodore Dewey had won the battle of Manila Bay. San Juan Hill.* Along...
...arrival at the Legislature was heralded by trumpeters and military bands and his entry into the Senate was the signal for a raucous presidential salute of gunfire...
...Caribbean Sea to Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed in the jungle...
With the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 Anton Smetona, like Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, with whom he is frequently compared, began to wage a private war for Lithuanian republicanism. The signal chance for the Lithuanian minority in colossal Russia had dawned. By spoken and written word Smetona worked fearlessly for the liberation of his people from the yoke of despotism, resisting equally the Germans, who at one time threatened to end his cherished ideal of a free Lithuania...