Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signatures on the Japanese copy of the surrender document. Colonel L. Moore Cosgrave, who signed for Canada, had written on the wrong line. So had the French, Dutch and New Zealand signers who followed him.] The orders were placed in their hands and the Americans curtly gave them the signal to leave. They turned and departed as they had come. The shrill bosun's pipe followed their steps over the side-Shigemitsu, tired and expressionless, limping on his cane as he went; Umezu, stony-faced and silent, lifting a white-gloved hand to acknowledge the salute of the guard...
Politics & Work. There was one more bit of news: Harry Truman, asked about vacancies in Government ranks, said that politics was now open and free. In effect, it was a signal that the wartime honeymoon was just about over, that the political shooting was about to start...
...leather, weighed about ten pounds. On the end of it was what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
Among those in the U.S. who had a hand in its development were: a Navy quartet. of physicists and radio hams-Albert H. Taylor, Leo C. Young, Robert M. Page and Louis A. Gebhard-who pioneered radar in the '205 and '303; the Signal Corps' Colonel Roger Colton (now an A.A.F. major general), whose laboratory staff at Fort Monmouth designed the first Army set; Stanford University's R. H. and S. F. Varian, who invented the important klystron tube; and a great anonymous army of scientists at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, Bell Telephone Laboratories, General...
...great supergadget-was how to tell whether detected planes or ships were friendly or hostile. It was solved by an ingenious instrument called I.F.F. ("Identification, Friend or Foe"). When an I.F.F.-equipped plane is hit by a friendly radar beam, the instrument automatically flashes back a coded identifying signal...