Word: signal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...table at from $4.00 to $4.50 than can now be found elsewhere in Cambridge. 3. That, as hundreds of men in college depend on the hall to protect them from the impositions of boarding house keepers, its closing will cause great inconvenience and hardship, since it will be the signal for an immediate rise in prices throughout Cambridge...
Miss Maud Jones, a member of the Fox Novelty Theatre Co., cowhided T. J. Wood, editor of the Middletown (O.) Signal, on Monday last...
...Spuyten Duyvil inquest, H. D. Welsh testifies that the brakeman waited until the coming train was in sight before going back to signal it. The engineer testifies that the accident would not have happened had not the brakes been tampered with...
...enemy that he saw double. Such was the band of warriors selected by Prince Presistrardin to uphold the cause of the Faculty. And now the keeper of the tourney, who bore on his shield the proud motto "Ike Dean"* summoned the herald Jone d'Harvard to give the signal. Casting a look at the dial of the neighboring cathedral, with might and main he blew the bell which was the signal for opening the joust...
...point of sparing the feelings of our athletic representatives by charitably blinding ourselves to their obvious failings, so long must we expect to see those failings remain prevalent. A team may do hard and conscientious work all through the winter, and yet in the spring meet with utter and signal defeat; and in such a case, while we should give them full credit for the hard work they have done, we must not content ourselves with patting them on the back and calling them unfortunate victims of circumstances, but we must allow the possibility of their labor having been misapplied...