Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Hawley gave the Green teams long workout this afternoon, but did not order a regular scrimmage. Both teams A and B were given an apparatus drill, and then took part in a long signal practice. Lane and MacPhail, powerful plunging backs, showed considerable speed, and Dooley was successful in completing forward passes. Coach Smith has been drilling a team on Harvard plays, and these will probably be used against the University team in a stiff scrimmage tomorrow
...explosion was the signal for revolutionaries who toppled the Manchu dynasty in ruins, and built unsteadily out of the debris the north-central republic under Yuan Shih-kai and the rival southern republic under Sun Yatsen. Both these "presidents" died,-the former at the height of power, allegedly by poison; the latter a weary exile in cold Peking. China became the spoil of numerous Tuchuns or provincial governors. One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence...
...Gibson, Ind., in a huge freight yard of the Indiana Harbor Belt R. R., Bell Telephone Co. engineers installed and announced perfect a radio telephone transmitter in the yard-master's signal tower and receiving sets with loud speakers in switch-engine cabs, the antennae being placed on the rear of the tenders. So perfect was the communication that engineers received their orders farther from the tower than their answering whistles could be heard...
...Morris is a Boston broker, and the Stock Exchange code has influenced his signal system a great deal. However, his signals and the score-board to which he wigwags have both been copyrighted, and are now used by Brown, Dartmouth and Holy Cross...
...Signal Mountain, Tenn...