Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...express request of Benito all the Senators and Deputies, except three or four, appeared in full evening dress. One Deputy provoked convulsions of merriment by appearing in "tails" and yellow boots; one wore a black shirt. The appearance of the King was a signal for roof-lifting applause which was as loud as it was long. Vittorio Emanuele, dressed in the uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded...
...buried from the White House is a signal honor, seldom conferred even upon those of Cabinet rank. The honor was accorded Mrs. Hubert Work, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, whose sudden death took place in the Capital last week. Funeral services were held in the East Room of the White House. She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery...
...heavens and through the roof came the bride-Peggy Wood, all dressed up in wedding clothes (running away at the altar). Like the heroine of the Three Wise Fools, her arrival is the signal for things to happen and happen they...
...Methodist Church South. a motion to adopt our resolution for unity." Thus he referred to the scheme of organization which he had devised to make union possible. It provides for one national Church having two jurisdictional sections, South and North. Concluding his speech the Bishop said: "It is a signal triumph of the unifying power of the passion and cross of Jesus Christ...
...Major Gen. George O. Squier, former chief Signal Officer, U.S. Army, reporting the results of recent experiments in ocean cable work, stated that a universal automatic telegraph transmitter, applicable to radio, land lines and submarine cables, has been tested on artificial cables in the laboratory. The electron vacuum tube is facilitating the new development; an undreamed-of degree of cable efficiency will be possible by amplification of received cable signals. Cable and radio telegraphy each have their natural sphere of utility and are not essentially in conflict...