Word: wig-wag
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...next half an hour is quiet, and Officer Derosiers pulls into an MIT parking lot to give me a tour of the squad car. He shows me the wig-wag lights, which go back and forth, the take-downs, which are bright forward-facing lights, alley lights, which go to the side of the car, and the strobe lights...
Neither by Wig-Wag nor Smoke. John L. Lewis, who loves nothing so much as an uproar, composed his face in a lugubrious cast. "All American workers," he said piously, are entitled to as big a raise as he had got for his miners. "To restrict American labor to a miserable 10% increase ... is an unwise, arbitrary action ... destructive . . . disrupting to the productive economy...
...have watched the Freshmen start out waving their caps to the singing of the Red and Blue in unison with the rest of the students, only to wind up out of cadence. Now, it doesn't seem too much to ask men of college calibre to make a simple wig-wag motion with the arm in time with everybody else--especially with the cheer leaders standing right in front of them...
...became interested in the work. At the suggestion of Mr. Irwin I devised a set of signals, made up from a combination of Army wig-wag and Stock Exchange signals, by which I can signal in an instant to the score-board the "downs," "yard line," "yards to go," "who's ball," "play by," "man hurt," "goal," "touchdown"--in short everything that is necessary to the complete understanding of the game. Since then I have constantly improved the system so that today it is accepted as a standard all over the country...
Friday: 8-9 (section rooms) I. D. R., pp. 148-158. 9.15-10, Physical training; Koehler, pp. 68-85 and 148-171. 10-10.45, Signalling, wig-wag code. 10.45-11.45, Squad drill, close and extended order. 1.30-2.30 (section rooms) Minor tactics; Bjornstad, pp. 89-99. 2.45-3.15, Bayonet combat. 3.15-4.15, Platoon drill, close and extended order. 4.15-5.30, Company drill, close and extended order. 7.45, Lecture by an Officer of the French Mission...