Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long familiar to landlubbers has been the distress signal SOS. Contrary to landlubber tradition, S 0 S is not an abbreviation-either for "Save Our Souls" or "Save Our Ship." It is simply one of the clearest, simplest signals that could be devised from the Morse Code: Dot-dot-dot dash-dash-dash...
Every now and then the U. T. performs a signal act of merit which makes everyone forget its occasional Grade B pictures. Last year it was the showing of "Mayerling" which brought plaudits, and today it is "Der Unsterbliche Walzer." In presenting this German language movie about the life of Johann Strauss, the U. T. is making a real cultural contribution to the Harvard community...
...year concession to exploit oil lands throughout the whole of Saudi Arabia. This plum fell to Standard Oil Co. of California last summer-almost unnoticed, since U. S. citizens were then so busy watching the European volcano burp. What soft-collared, spatless Standard businessmen had achieved was signal defeat of top-hatted Japanese, Ger man and British diplomats who had been struggling for years to win this Near East prize...
Clearing weather over Western Europe last week was the signal for renewed reconnaissance flights from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate. Allied soldiers restudied their pattern charts to be sure they remembered which planes to shoot at. But still both the Allies and Germany stayed their hands from grand-scale air warfare, for the same reasons that have ruled for 21 weeks: economy of men and planes, fear of reprisal, unpreparedness, weather. But a piece of air news came from London, about a German device...
...good faith, and perhaps expanded on later, was a snatch of a CBS broadcast that night by Newscaster Edwin C. Hill, a lurid, present-tense yarn of the long-past sinking of the Republic in 1909 - first major sea disaster in which radio was used as a distress signal: "Fog is all about . . . impenetrable murk . . . hysterical shriek . . . crash and grinding . . . frightening darkness . . . shouts and screams . . . women and children aboard ... C Q D ... C Q D*. ..." As Captain Brown recalled whatever he did hear, "they seemed terribly excited. . . . It made me sick to my stomach...