Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become separated from Britain, it means war!" he cried. "The German press does not leave us in ignorance of that! . . . Remember Hitler's words in Mein Karnpf. The driving of a wedge between Britain and France, the isolation of France-that is to be the German signal for war! Laval, by his lukewarm support of the League, would make Der Führer's fondest dream come true. . . . We have to choose between Italy which is in rupture with the League Covenant and Britain, the guardian of that Covenant. In opposition to Mussolini's well-known saying...
...stung Russians in their most sensitive spot-their pride-by telling them how the Capitalists who had sold tools to Bolsheviks were snickering up their sleeves, sure that clumsy Russians would never get the hang of mechanized technique. Already in Russia the breakdown of a machine was often the signal to shoot the operator "for sabotage." Commissar Ordzhonikidze demanded something more constructive...
...This instrument carries, however, simply a screw thread whose grooves are filled with an insulating material. On this bears a contact attached to an evacuated box such as is used in an ordinary aneroid barometer. Every time the contact crosses a thread, a corresponding interruption occurs in the radio signal. This signal was received on a rotating drum. The distance between the interruptions and the number of them tells the speed of ascent and the height...
...experiment was, however, partially successful, in that the signal was followed for an hour, when the instrument was about 6 1/4 miles above and 25 miles to the eastward of the starting point. At this point, the battery failed, because of the extremely low temperature...
...signal of the highest officer, two sergeants, one on each side, armed with sticks of sound wood of oak or cherry over one inch thick, start to beat him on the hips...