Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly, just as the Conference was about to go into a plenary session, Bolivia's delegation announced that Paraguay had broken the truce by capturing four forts after the ceaseing signal. This Paraguay's delegation hotly denied. The Conference's plenary session was promptly called off and once again the League Commission took over. The Commission announced that it would appoint a sub-commission that would plunge into the Chaco and report whether or not the truce had been violated. Its Spanish chairman set out for Montevideo to preside there at a peace conference between Paraguayan...
...nights before Christmas the overcrowded Paris-to-Nancy express stopped on a red signal in a pea-soup fog 15 mi. east of Paris. At 8:15 the Paris-to-Strasbourg express hurtled at 50 m p h into it from behind, knifed the baggage car in two, plowed through four jammed passenger cars...
Because the Metropolitan Opera Company went around with a tin cup last spring, begging for its life, top hats ermine coats and all other first-night finery were out last week to signal the beginning of another opera season...
...conflict with others already in existence. This changing of exchanges will cause much trouble, much rewriting of address books, but it is a necessary evil in the cause of progress. No names for the new exchanges have as yet been settled upon. Eliot was suggested, but since the dial signal E-L-I would be quite likely to cause some trouble because of its peculiar incongruity with its surroundings, the cautious telephone company decided to change it to something less suggestive to the mind of the Harvard...
Honky tonks have been treated so exhaustively in the cinema since The Barker that the first squeak of a calliope now sounds like a warning signal of boredom to come. Even a blatant performance by Actress Bow, in the manner of a juvenile Mae West, and an ending which shows her wriggling in the midway of a Century of Progress, fail to prevent Hoopla from seeming obsolete...