Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, however, to call attention to the fact that protest against the continuance in power of the present administration, with its record of weakness and vice, is made most effective by a united support of the Democratic national ticket. Mr. Davis is a true progressive and a man of signal ability. His record is clean and honest, as is the record of his party. There is no cause for any progressive man who desires a government of honesty at home and honor abroad to vote for an independent candidate with a hastily formed and politically irresponsible party so long...
...black September night, Lisbon, capital of the Republic of Portugal, was startled from its sleep by the firing of seven large rockets. The signal for a Communist revolt had been given...
During this first week of the much delayed practice much work has been accomplished with the Eli squad of sixty odd men. Long signal drills have been in order every day, and Friday, but four days after the first actual workout, Coach Jones ran the first two teams through twenty minute scrimmages with the scrubs...
Following the first scrimmage, on Saturday T. A. D. sent the men through an intensive signal drill which lasted for two hours and was preceded by about a half hour's work on the fundamentals--passing and falling on the ball, starts, and tackling the dummy. While the length of the practice period was great it was a let up from the scrimmage that was welcomed. Always after the first scrimmage there are numerous aches and sore muscles...
...minutes of four, yesterday Captain Greenough's men left the guarded gates of the stadium for brief tackling practice on the dummies. It was the first time the dummies had been used this year. Each man had seven turns at them. Subsequently the University players returned to their secret signal and dummy practice. There was a squad of punters at work consisting of Gehrke, Hammond, Miller, Maher, and Cheek...