Word: signaller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother decides it's high time to halt the family weakness for defaulting. This time she'll be firm and signal for the police. Her son's sweetheart, whose estate the son has largely defrauded, suddenly decides that jail is none too good for him. (He has just reminded her that her dad killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund...
Gunnery. The expansometer, a machine invented at the Bureau of Standards, Washington, can measure a projectile's speed within a gun. It is operated by the infinitesimal expansion of the gun, followed instantly by contraction, from the gas generated by the discharge, which transmits an electric signal to a high-speed recording instrument...
...this very day kept as intellectually active as any youth--and he has kept so by the catholicity and vigor of his interests. In this he has made himself a great name--our foremost example of the American Citizen. And President Eliot is to receive such signal recognition on March 20. He deserves all praises and honor not only from Harvard men but from the whole country...
...army, constitute the group. They are: Major Napoleon W. Riley, Quartermaster Corps; Major Edgar C. Jones, Medical Department; Major Samuel S. Creighton, Medical Department; Major Harry K. Rutherford, Ordnance Department; Major Walter R. Weaver, Air Service; Captain Edmund de T. Ellis, Quartermaster Corps; Captain Lawrence L. Clayton, Signal Corps; Captain G. C. Irwin; and Lientenant Lowell A. Elliott, Chemical Warfare Service...
...people themselves who make it dangerous here," he declared. "If only they would be careful and watch where they go, there would be less trouble. For example, I get all the cars stopped, and none of the pedestrians will look at me when I signal them to cross. And then when the cars get started, they all try to cross in every direction, and I have to wave around like a windmill to watch them." Mr. Murphy, however, admitted that the elimination of the rotunda would help matters...