Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. John J. McGraw is too well known to the world of ball to require extended biography. Even those who are uncertain of the difference between a single and a signal have read McGraw's name in the headlines. He has figured in one or two street brawls. Has played in " vodvil," is not unknown to horse racing. He was a member of the famous Baltimore Oriole team of 1894 and has been a forceful figure in the game ever since. He has seven...
...proctor signal to another and felt that my opportunity had come, but before I could even begin to frame a sentence, I was seized from both sides and ejected forcibly from the hall. The outrage left me flaming with indignation on the steps. To realize that Harvard, which makes so much of its traditional free speech should tolerate such a flagrant breach of its principles by its hirelings! I determined that this atrocity should be followed up immediately. It was, As I picked myself up the doors behind me were opened and a shower of my books and papers caromed...
...glance at the clock, and move quickly away. The clock is the slave-driver. Everything moves by exact timing. On the minute the singer hurries backstage for a rehearsal, the assistant conductor to play the organ or direct the trumpets behind the scenes, the stage official to give the signal for the curtain or the descent of the dove or the collapse of the temple. The amount of work done, especially by the men who coach the singers, lead the orchestra and direct the details of production, is enormous, and they are driven with precision and discipline that, with...
...alphabet for radio, cable and telegraph was invented by Major General George 0. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. Army. Instead of dots, dashes and spaces of varying lengths of time, used in the Morse and Universal codes, General Squier's system employs three different wave intensities of each half cycle of alternating current (uniform in time), to represent the dot, dash and space, making various combinations for each character. This brings it into line with modern progress in electrical transmission, which has been revolutionized since Morse's alphabet, the development of which has stood still...
...constitution which has just been signed is a signal victory of democracy over the would-be autocracy that the King wished to impose on the country. In it Egypt is defined as a "free and independent State" with an hereditary monarchical constitutional Government, and the throne is reserved to the members of the family of Muhammed Ali, the founder of the present dynasty. Education is made free and obligatory for both sexes. All power is derived from the people and the legislative power is to be exercised conjointly by King and Parliament. The King and the Court did not, however...