Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus, Radcliffe, received their diplomas along with the men. And also for the first time, the traditional commencement address in Latin was delivered by a classical scholar in a skirt. Radcliffe's Kirsten Mishkin, 21, a magna cum laude graduate, borrowed a quote from Horace to take this signal honor in stride: "non humilis mulier triumpho" (a woman not humble in triumph...
...manner. While he is not an effective public speaker, he talks well at his "seminars," drawing people out, probing motives as well as positions and arguments. If he is not satisfied, he will say: "Well, let's have another meeting on this." Says an associate: "That is the signal for us to go out and come back with something better...
...plain as a red signal on the main track, the ominous figures in quarterly earnings reports showed for months that the Penn Central Transportation Co. was in precarious financial condition. The nation's largest railroad and its parent corporation, the Penn Central Co., are among the wealthiest companies in the U.S. (assets: $7 billion). But the railroad is burdened with debt, beset by spiral ing costs, tangled operations, a drop in freight shipments and the $100 million annual drain of unwanted passenger service. As a result, a convulsion last week shook the once-mighty Penn Central and spread deep...
...cyclic as the Soldier in White, a mummy-like form completely encased in bandages. At one end, a bottle feeds fluid into the region of some upper vein. At the other, a pipe conducts the fluid out of the kidney region and into another bottle. At a given signal, preoccupied nurses exchange the bottles, and the cycle begins anew...
These booths are cleverly designed. Their over-hanging roofs lower to cover the (smaller) bases for overnight and bad weather storage, incorporating display, storage and roofing functions in one compact unit. The booths' unusual form would become recognized as a signal for their function-and this kind of visual guide can make a city more legible and therefore more comprehensible...