Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signal drills have already been held with Boston and the Business School, and Keppler says the Boston officials expressed great satisfaction with the results of the tests...
...Podsnap," "Mr. Bob Sawyer," "Mr. Chops," "Monseigneur." He literally threw himself into the performance, with movements and gestures which seemed just what the author intended, and his voices were superb, whether he was the narrator, the young fop, the chauvinistic Englishman, the crotchety landlady, the Marquis, or the signal...
...That's the way to play the game," shouted McKinlay to his grinning skip. The Scot skip was less demonstrative. Soberly he raised his broom, the curler's signal for a well-played shot...
...This martyred look will break up into a smile if it is challenged, but sooner or later it will be resumed with a distant glance at nothing and a sighed "Well, well, you never can tell." The look has definite functions. In his New York apartment, it is a signal that the judge is bored with the conversation. At his country place in Westhampton, it means that he is preparing to make his escape...
After receiving a slip of paper bearing the urgent "N.O.S." (Not on Shelf) signal, Shea immediately hurries to the shelf where the book is supposed to be, and many times he finds it misplaced or pushed behind other volumes. If the book is not there, he goes to the catalogue file and learns if the would-be borrower has copied the correct call number. This solves the majority of the cases...