Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the sunset gone and darkness settling down upon Bury Hill, the master of Arundel Castle had still to set the final signal of his coming of age. Just outside the castle grounds at a bald spot on the hill there towered 40 feet into the night a pile of 3,000 faggots cut from Arundel copses, woodsmen had guarded the pile from pranksters and now watched with relief their master approach and throw the flaming torch to set the fire off. Yellow tongues licked up the oil and shot toward the dark sky. Soon in all the seven counties...
...Seattle, Count George Hay du Barry invented a red and white signal flag for distressed motorists. On one side appears the legend STALLED! SEND TIRE MAN; on the other SEND MECHANIC, PLEASE! HAVE A HEART!! For no other wayside dilemma has: Count du Barry prepared flags...
...hardly be truthfully said that Harvard sports and Harvard have suffered through what is nothing more than an application of the Golden Rule. There was a time when the mention of a Harvard team was the automatic signal for loud guffaws, and this entirely aside from the merit of the team in question. Whenever athletic Harvard became embroiled in a public controversy per opponent got the sympathy of the press and therefore the goodwill of the public. Now Harvard gets at least her fair share of public goodwill as far as her athletics are concerned, and since even Harvard alumni...
...triumphed, this time by a score of 2 to 0, was explained throughout by W. R. Okeson, commissioner of Eastern football. He distributed among the coaches sheets describing all the new rule changes and then explained every rule as an illustration occurred on the field. A new system of signals for the officials was also tried out. Under this arrangement, when a penalty occurs in a game, the referee or the umpire will immediately flash a signal which will let the men in the press box know just what penalty was exacted...
...last year, Yale's ten brightest Seniors sat in Connecticut Hall scribbling answers to a Harvard English examination. They could smoke, but honor bound them not to speak, peer or signal. At the same time Harvard's "ten brightest" took the same examination under like conditions in Cambridge. The Harvard men made the highest marks and thereby won a "brain contest" originated and financed-with a foundation of $125,000-by Mrs. William Lowell Putnam, sister of Harvard's President. The victors' spoils were $5,000 worth of books (TIME...