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Word: signalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota anglers held what they called the World's Original Ice Fishing Contest. At a given signal, 2,196 fishermen rushed out on frozen White Bear Lake near St. Paul, chopped holes in 28-inch ice and dropped in their bait. While 8,000 spectators watched (see cut), they fished for two hours. The winner, John Einum, got an outboard motor for catching a 5¼-lb. walleyed pike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Enactment of the Barnes Bill would danger-signal to nations everywhere that "the American people had begun to succumb to a panic" destructive of "the whole basis for our success in a worldwide competition with an alien and hostile ideology." President Conant testified at the State House yesterday before the joint House-Senate Committee on Education...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Conant Scores Barnes Bill As Harbinger of 'Hysteria' | 2/10/1948 | See Source »

Petrillo's virtual strangle-hold on record shops, however, loosened this week when he cancelled all canned-music contracts and forbade union members to transcribe any new records. The Crimson band can now hope to compete and only awaits the 'go' signal from the two companies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Seek Money to Support Trips to Princeton, Army Contests | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

That was the signal. Twelve convicts, many of them lifers, began the escape that had been plotted for weeks. They slugged four other guards, threw a switch that opened the electrically locked cell doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Trouble in Little Siberia | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...hotbox alumni got as high marks as the professor; some vomited, suffered extreme fatigue and sensations of suffocation. The thing to worry about is the temperature of the blood moving toward the brain. Professor Taylor thinks this would give the best warning signal of approaching collapse under heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hotbox | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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