Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Click, click, click, buzz," answered a Televox upon the signal of its inventor, R. J. Wensley, over an ordinary telephone last evening, and proceeded to turn on electric lights, start electric fans and trains and do other almost human things in the presence of a CRIMSON reporter. The Televox, which, was exhibited at the training school of the Boston Elevated Company, is the nearest approach to the long-sought "mechanical man". It consists of an imaginative cardboard figure of a man surrounding a complex electric outfit which forms the man's "heart...
Returning to the Cahill Report on French Prosperity, observers noted first its unequivocally optimistic tone: "France is at present incalculably stronger industrially than in 1913. . . . Hers is an enhanced, all-pervading and solidly based economic advance . . . signal prosperity ... an age of industrial expansion unprecedented in French history and of a magnitude unsurpassed by any other European country...
...Treaty of Ancon (1883), which concluded the War of the Pacific, it was provided that a plebiscite be eventually held in Tacna-Arica, to determine its final sovereignty. The signal diplomatic defeat of the Coolidge Administration has been their failure to arrange the holding of this plebiscite, under the auspices of General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. When local rivalries, dishonesties and backbitings were found to present unsurmountable obstacles, it was discovered that "Black Jack's" teeth needed expert U. S. attention (TIME, Jan. n, 1926) and he sailed for home. Subsequently appearances have been patched up by Secretary...
...rumored that his film would encourage recruiting in His Majesty's armies. Accordingly, when the film arrived in Southampton from Manhattan it was greeted by an escort of territorial troops and a jubilant band which accompanied it to London. Decidedly, Director Laemmle had scored a signal advertising coup...
...Midnight. A signal, a shout. Then the sound of machinery drilling in the black earth, while lights gleamed on 92 steel derricks and cut the black sky. That was midnight, last week, when an agreement to curtail drilling in the rich Maud and Mission territory near Seminole, Okla., came...