Word: signaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...branch has been given a special go-ahead signal by the Boston Bar Association. Students working at the new office will be the only ones in the nation entitled to practice law outside school limits...
...normal state, a nerve cell is like an electrical relay waiting for a signal to send it into action. When the signal (a pulse of energy from another neuron) arrives, the cell "fires." An electrical disturbance starts at its center and travels outward along all its fibers. When the pulse reaches the end of a fiber and touches a fiber of another cell, it may or may not "fire" that cell, too. This selective action is the basis of the brain's operation...
...however, to figure out exactly what they are going to do. In addition to barking at them over an electric amplifier which carries his words more than a hundred yards through the noise of the Square, he attempts to regulate them with a manually-operated push-button traffic signal. Both the booth and traffic signal were built ten years ago when traffic conditions in the Square reached their present state of chaos, but the amplifier was not added until 1941, more or less as a last resort...
...case, the council's two-way verdict constituted a first-class tactical save for Nicaragua's strong man, "Tacho" Somoza. Tough Tacho, the only Nicaraguan who could have given the go-ahead signal for the Costa Rican adventure, narrowly escaped getting his fingers burned when Costa Rica invoked the Treaty of Rio de Janeiro (for hemisphere defense...
...include the republic. Everyone knew that the decree could not be enforced without military action. The Socialists were opposed to fighting (the royal family was said to be against it also); but the war party, led by War Minister Willem F. Schokking, had its way. A go-ahead signal was flashed to Lieut. General Simon H. Spoor in Batavia...