Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's line-up will probably be unchanged from the Saturday array, unless Chase replaces Ullman on second base. Ullman was taken out of the Princeton game when he missed the signal from the bench on a double steal. Chase played a faultless game in the field on his first appearance and against right handed twirling is more effective at the plate than the regular second sacker...
After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...last the familiar signal flashed in. They were at Circle City, 130 miles northeast of Fairbanks on the Yukon. That they were safe was good news, but there was better news still...
...them on board, though he often tolerated male visitors. To one woman who took off her hat he cried: "Put it on! Only liars take off their hats!" In the awkward pause which followed, the visitor twiddled her thumbs. "Madam," said Mr. Brown, "I do not know what your signal means, so I cannot answer...
This suggests that a similar elasticity of system and administration might be adopted with signal advantages at Harvard, provided the present college mass were to be divided into groups small enough to establish complete mutual personal contact and understanding between students and teachers. Moreover, there is no reason why some such college groups, like Balliol at Oxford or Kings at Cambridge, should not constitute themselves wholly on the "honors" system, and thus demonstrate their thesis for the encouragement or warning, of other colleges...