Word: signalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church is more illustriously associated with the traditions of U.S. freedom than Boston's Unitarian Second (Old North) Church. Founded in 1649, used by Silversmith Paul Revere for his famed "one if by land, two if by sea" signal, stripped for firewood by the British troops in 1776, it was the only church Ralph Waldo Emerson ever served as pastor. The Rev. Clayton Brooks Hale, its 20th, was proud to be called there in 1950. But last week New Hampshire-born, 36-year-old Unitarian Hale, a graduate of Tufts College and Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, sorrowfully found...
Another Bell breakthrough in 1948 was the discovery, after years of basic research into the structure of matter, that a solid metal such as germanium or silicon (earth's most abundant solid element) can be made to act like a vacuum tube, i.e., it will amplify an electric signal. Result: the flea-size transistor−and a king-size new industry. Thirty-five manufacturers have already turned out 7,000,000 transistors v. 1 billion vacuum tubes now in use in the U.S., are doubling output each year. Transistors will multiply the speed of future telephone exchanges...
...Yankee Victor Charlie Alpha Mike Sierra,* This is Coast Guard 2124 . . . Do you read? . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124, request a long count from you on this frequency. Over." Back came the long "one-two-three-four . . ." from the ailing Constellation. The Albatross, following Mike Sierra's radio signal, homed in on the Constellation to give a friendly escort through the night...
Electronic Banker. An electronic savings-bank system built by the Teleregister Corp., Stamford, Conn, handles 4,500 transactions hourly, accommodates up to 250,000 savings accounts. The data-processing system uses magnetic "memory" drums to control accounts, display uncleared check conditions, signal overdrafts, give tellers instantaneous access to any account. For the first customer, Howard Savings Institution of Newark, the "magnetronic savings-account system" will centrally record deposits and withdrawals made at the main office and five branch banks, saving customers' time and eliminating bulky manual records...
...weekly News of the World with a circulation that still topped 7,000,000-the biggest on earth. But the size and the rate of the drop-faster than that of any other British Sunday paper-prompted one critic, Francis Williams in the weekly New Statesman & Nation, to signal: "It looks as if we are at last drawing towards the close of an era in Sunday journalism-the era of the News of the World...