Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...
Lade in the afternoon, with darkness setting in, and all the glamor of the half-light and the white ball spurring them on, the top teams ran through a really jazzed-up signal drill. Joe gardella continued to alternate from wingback to bucking back. When he worked as wingback, big Ben Smith was the bucker. On the "B" eleven Ray Jones, elevated since Bob Burnett's ankle injury, took over the wingback post...
...over an habitual jailbird named Isidore Juffe. Mr. Juffe told the Herlands office that he had ''paid plenty" to keep out of jail in Brooklyn. District Attorney Geoghan said he had been at liberty as a stool pigeon, promptly clapped him back behind bars. This was the signal for Commissioner Herlands to bring his fight into the open, which he did by blanketing Brooklyn with 1,402 subpoenas for financial records and bank accounts, to expose the workings of the Geoghan office since...
...American Airlines transport ship took off from the same field. Mounted horizontally just behind the throttles between the pilot and co-pilot was a circular dial face marked off in degrees like a compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted the truck parked behind a hangar...
...help determine the plane's position in flight. After a ground station is tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...