Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midyear report last week, the President's Council of Economic Advisers hailed the prospect of bumper crops as the one strong force which "should be of signal aid in checking of inflation." But was it? Thanks to the farm bloc and the Government crop-support program, the answer seemed likely to be no, at least for months to come...
...apparent burglary, by the local police.) His business associates are so young and fearsome that among them Mr. Stevens, no pantywaist, seems as mild and conspicuous as a country uncle. He makes himself still more conspicuous by the recklessly amateurish ways he keeps in touch with fellow agents; they signal each other, for instance, with lights at fleabag windows. However, he stirs up a lot of dirt (a high police official is involved), gets the necessary evidence, and funnels the picture into a climax in a dark factory, where a satisfying portion of hell breaks loose...
Behind each signal button is an electronic tube. The moment the button is touched (it doesn't have to be pushed), the tube sends an electronic signal which automatically stops the next elevator at that floor. Inside the elevator, the operator also works his door controls by electronic button controls...
Panic by Degrees. "The fire department has run itself ragged putting out blazes of unknown origin and unexplained size . . . Crime has increased, naturally. Street lights keep blowing out, and the police signal and radio systems have suffered from jamming. Absenteeism is terrific on the night shifts, because people have taken to staying home after dark. People have taken to staying home in the daylight...
Surveyor. To prepare for his prodigious literary labors, Churchill got all his papers, letters and documents together and blocked out volume titles, chapter headings and an outline for all five volumes: "First I lay the track; then I put up the railway stations and the signal blocks...