Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the preliminary kicking practice session inside the Stadium, and the routine dummy and signal drill Coach Horween sent for the second team and gave the University the ball on its own 15-yard line. It took just 11 plays for the varsity to put across the initial score. Stafford making the touchdown on a pretty forward pass from French. Sayles, playing fullback in the Team A offensive quartet added the extra point...
...shark too, but paid no heed. He had enough to think about, for placid though the waters looked, they were full of treacherous tide-rips and cold eddies which dragged him about like a chip. It was the rips and eddies, not the idle shark, that made John Radowich signal to be lifted out, after three hours of strenuous swimming had taken him only six miles. . . . Other aspirants to Mr. Wrigley's money followed Sailor Radowich by boat, including one Bodie Blewett, svelte bobbed beachling, who promised she would enter the marathon if and when held, sharks...
...duty, cable ships fly a signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond between them; by night, lanterns hung, vertically, red above, and below, white between...
years ago England chuckled happily at this comedy and about eight years ago Manhattan rejected it. In the latter case it was played by the late Henry Miller under the title of Perkins. It has this season been revived in London and the revival was a signal for a second American experiment. Again the play fails to fit the cranky native fancy...
...small number of applications submitted to date possibly indicate doubt among Seniors as to the success of the Spread. That this sentiment is wholly unwarranted is patent from the signal popularity of this institution in former years. The Committee is doing its utmost to secure the success of the Spread and expects Seniors to do likewise...