Word: signalizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Formosa. Two rounds struck within a quarter of a mile, one jolted us from only 150 yards away. At dawn, as our plane taxied in, the Red batteries came alive, and 20 rounds smacked in. Geysers spouted from the sea, and two holes were blasted in the airstrip. On signal, we scrambled out of our ditch and aboard the plane. Minutes later we were over the white-capped Formosa Strait...
...would be a good idea to annex Sind, a sizable province in what is now Pakistan. General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B., was glad to oblige, and before long he was able to send a progress report to his superiors. He did so, one legend has it, in a signal that represents one of history's more famous puns: "Pec-cam [I have sinned...
...everything was not normal. Unaccountably, at a speed of 30 m.p.h. or more, No. 3314 rolled on through three successive signal lights-three clear warnings that a 300-ft. drawbridge span was open. Then, just short of gaping space, the train was derailed by an automatic safety device, bumped along the ties and plunged 40 ft. down...
Plans call for elimination of the 21 safety islands on Massachusetts Avenue, considered contributing factors in many recent accidents, and for a modern system of traffic lights. The present signal system is 30 years...
...GIANT with $500 million assets will be formed by merger of Signal Oil & Gas Co. with Hancock Oil Co., both of Los Angeles County. Together, firms produce 142,500 bbls. per day in U.S., Middle East, Venezuela...