Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass trials are the greatest gamble in medical history," says a polio researcher, who, admittedly, favors a live-virus vaccine. But the gamble is sure to pay off one way or another. If the Salk vaccine is effective for even one season, 1954 will be a year of signal victory against polio; if it is not, little will have 3een lost and much knowledge gained for a new attack...
Early in his public feud with the Army last month, Joe McCarthy triumphantly charged that the Signal Corps had a Communist named Annie Lee Moss encoding and decoding "top-secret" messages in its Pentagon headquarters. Proof? He had the sworn testimony of a woman FBI agent...
...Moss testified that she had never even heard of Communism until 1948, swore she "would have reported" anyone who asked her for a coded Signal Corps message. She was asked: "Did you ever hear of Karl Marx?" The crowd laughed as she answered: "Who's that...
Segat used his bayonet to carve a hole in another prisoner's ear. "Captain Griffiths gave me a piece of signal wire," he said, "and told me to tie it to the ear." Then the patrol moved off, with Segat leading the prisoner...
...anti-intellectual forces of Cambridge have bumbled onto a devise that could sap the will to resist and the fighting edge of Harvard's academic flower. A signal light now stops traffic at the corner of Massachusetts and Holyoke. The calculating city council, which has its own supply of scouts, placed this light at the spot most likely to cause trouble for Harvard. With Hayes-Bickford's emergence as a favorite of young intellectuals taking a leisurely break between rising and lunch time, this corner has been essential for the physical health of Harvard. Dodging the vigilant cabs, cars...