Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good student, he showed particular talent for geology, the "new science" which the oil business was just getting interested in. Gene also got interested. He spent a year after graduation studying geology at the University of Texas and then a hitch as a corporal in the U.S. Signal Corps in World War I. He caught the eye of Wallace Pratt, then Standard's top geologist, who hired Gene to work fin its subsidiary, Humble Oil Co. There Holman again impressed the right person-William Stamps Parish, Humble's president. In a short time he was made boss...
...signal flags in some 200 brand new Park-O-Meters will begin curbing erst-while traffic violators on the local scene Monday morning at 8 o'clock, following the installation of meterheads today...
Taking over the entire cage at 4:30 o'clock, and thereby moving Freshman baseball practice up to an earlier hour, the gridders ran through preliminary exercises and signal drill...
...only had two to go, he must have figured he had better get in his licks. We continued down a rice check. Red ran to cover a cock pheasant and came to point. Stan walked in for the flush with his gun in position. I gave the signal and out came the bird. With a leap and a bound, Red made a perfect catch in the air. Everyone was surprised and began to kid Stan, saying that he would have missed anyway, so we gave Red credit for the save. Not thinking Red would repeat the performance, Stan was told...
...cost of doing nothing might be greater. In Korea, more sharply than in Germany, the U.S. system is pitted against Soviet totalitarianism. The Russian strategy is to sit it out and wait for U.S. impatience and renascent isolationism to call the G.I.s home. This would be the signal for a Communist underground in the south to emerge, combine with the Communist puppet government in the north and make all Korea into a Soviet satellite...