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Word: signalizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House clock, Ike was a couple of minutes early. Harry Truman was off in the residential section of the White House, and Ike chatted with Simmons until the President arrived in his office and buzzed a "show him in" signal. Then Ike went in for his first face-to-face meeting with Harry Truman since last June, when the President pinned a fourth Oak Leaf Cluster on retiring NATO Commander Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: Setting the Course | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Walter Greeley will probably spell Conzelman at quarterback. The two have alternated all year--both against the varsity in practice and in the regular games. Both are fair signal callers and better than average passers--the main difference stems from class; Greeley is a senior, Conzelman a sophomore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Battles Once Defeated Eli Jayvees on Near-Even Terms | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

...height of Newport's "Golden Age," one of the resort's hostesses gave a dinner for 50 at which the center of the table was piled with sand. Each of the guests found a small, sterling silver pail and shovel at his place. At a given signal everyone dug frantically for thousands of dollars' worth of rubies, sapphires and diamonds buried in the sandpile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Condemned Playgrounds | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...With State Department aid, he won an oil concession in the neutral zone of Kuwait and poured $10 million into mapping and surveying the area (he hopes to sink new test wells next month). He set up a Mexican subsidiary with Oilman Samuel B. Mosher, president of Signal Oil & Gas Co., and spent another $3,000,000 getting it into production (present output: 5,000 barrels a day). Then he got Mosher on American President Lines' board, and formed A.P.L. Associates to buy the line. Mosher's company put up half the purchase price; Davies and other friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Dollars for Dollar | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...this year are plastic cap rifles ($2.98 to $4). Yo-yos come shaped like basketballs, footballs and baseballs. For electric train buffs, there is a new signal tower; when the train goes by, one man pops out, another climbs down the ladder waving his flag at motorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Christmas Stocking | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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