Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass repugnance to fighting. That the U. S., for all its diplomatic efforts towards peace, is no exception to this fundamental military rule was revealed last week when George Palmer Putnam, Manhattan publisher, tried unsuccessfully to get the War Department's permission to print some of its Signal Corps photographs other than those glorifying...
...publication in book form pictures of the War's gory realities. Many of them came from private collections. Some were bootlegged out of Government archives. All are authentic, horrible. Last week Mr. Putnam went to Washington where he requested Major General Irving Joseph Carr, chief of the Army's Signal Corps, to open its files to his publishing venture. General Carr refused to release a single "horrible" photograph. His reason...
...Geographic Magazine. Salaries of men who go exploring for scientific institutions or Government departments "average about $3,000 a year. . . . You can't take out insurance if you are a chronic explorer." Dr. Dickey states that the appearance of a representative of the Rockefeller Foundation is "invariably the signal, about anywhere from Panama to Patagonia, for the small proprietors of land to register their properties as potential deposits of petroleum." Col. Lindbergh...
...seas. The Dominican fleet consists of one ship, a lumbering motor tanker named Arminda. Last November the Arminda sailed from Charleston for home with a cargo and 39 Dominicans returning to their country after fleeing the hurricane of 1930. The tanker ran into dirty weather. It was forced to signal for help. Promptly the Norwegian tanker Norwold shifted her course, picked up the floundering Arminda and towed her back to Charleston...
...cannot agree with your attitude that the recent reduction of course requirements from 16 to 15 was a major triumph, a signal achievement. For the reduction to have attained any considerable significance it would need to have been more drastic, from 16 to 12. Classes during the first three years of college may be required with justice, the first year for distribution, the second and third for concentration. Beyond that, there might be no requirements is courses, only a thorough and comprehensive examination--for which a candidate could submit himself whenever in his own estimation he was fully prepared. Such...