Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assured nothing in the way of accident, fire or earthquake can mar its entertainment." To give this assurance the theater featured "303 wonders," including a 38-ft., air-conditiofred davenport in the lounge, germicidal lamps to kill airborne bacteria, a vacuum shoe cleaner, an electric device which flashes a signal to ushers as a patron approaches the seating sections, music in the rest rooms...
Both among diplomats here and at Nanking it was viewed as a likely signal for the start of the full scale civil war long brewing between Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government and the Communists in North China...
...knows what happened next, or why. Haskew never called the tower. The CAA noticed later that the signal from the Winston-Salem radio range was weak and erratic. At 1:43 a.m. the plane smashed into the 2,200-ft. Blue Ridge foothills near Galax, Va., northwest of Winston-Salem and more than 50 miles from the field...
Their twin-engined Mariner, out on a photographic mission, had crashed and exploded on a 1,000-ft. plateau of snow and ice. The six survivors had food, drink and fuel, a half-burned fuselage for shelter. When at last the rescue plane appeared, they got directions by signal light to walk to the nearest open water, eight miles away. A trail over the ice was blazed for them with flags and dye markers dropped from the plane. Five walked; the sixth, more badly hurt than the rest, was drawn on an improvised sled to the water's edge...
...freshmen, small and inexperienced. The star of the team is 5 ft.11 in. Center Jack Allen, a superb dribbler and a deadly shot from just beyond the foul circle. In most of the other positions, Keaney keeps shuttling substitutes in & out with instructions to run until they tire, then signal for relief. By this simple method, which has proved effective in Keaney's 27 years at R.I. State, his fast little men recently trampled powerful St. John's in New York's Madison Square Garden...