Word: signal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...signal for a recall will be the second barrel of the shot-gun, but there will be no recall after the first ten strokes have been rowed...
...soon as the crews have passed through the draw a long whistle will be sounded from the referee's tug as a signal for the crews to get into line. There will be a rope stretched across the river to which four boats will be moored at distances of one hundred feet apart. A man in each boat will hold the stern of a shell. As soon as the shells are in line, two whistles will be sounded as a signal for the men to come out to the full reach. The boats will then be started in the following...
...starter will say, "Gentlemen, are you ready," and getting no reply, and seeing no coxswain hold up his hand as a signal that the crew is not ready, the starter will fire a shot-gun, after an interval of from two to five seconds, as a signal...
...reform. When he ran for President in 1884, he was opposed by only four Republicans of national renown, one of whom, Carl Schurz, was hired to speak against him for $200 a night. (Laughter.) We believe that Mr. Blaine should be nominated because he has rendered more conspicuous and signal service to the country and the party than any of his contemporaries, and because, more than any other man, he represents the Republican party and the American people. (Applause...
FROM "TOPICS OF THE TIME" IN FEBRUARY "CENTUAY.""The determined attack upon classical education, which looked for a time like a successful rebellion, has been in reality of signal service to the cause against which it was directed. Among other offensive measures adopted by the friends of the old learning was the establishment at Athens of a school where rising American Hellenists could enjoy the same advantages as were afforded to their co-workers from Germany, France and England. The practical man would have flouted the scheme as chimerical. But, four years since, a few professors from leading colleges, full...