Word: signalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Most important switch eliminates the confusing and little-used fair catch signal. Heretofore, if a safety man thought that he had no chance of advancing with the ball after catching it, he could raise his arm, signifying to his opponents that he would not try to run the ball. This gave him immunity against being tackled and possibly fumbling. Now, the rules state that the receiver must be given an unmolested opportunity to make the catch, but he need not signal...
...radiation with peaks on, certain frequencies. So he examined a virgin she-moth with an infrared-recording spectrophotometer. Sure enough. She did not "send" evenly on all wave lengths. Her radiation curve showed a pattern with peaks and valleys. A male equipped to receive infrared might recognize this coded signal as a she-moth's love song...
...does the male receive the signal? With his antennae. Night-mating male moths have magnificent, feathery antennae. If they are cut off, the amputee has trouble finding a female...
...President Walter Gifford. He was not in, so the operator switched the call to Harrison, who offered to go to Washington to discuss the problem. He wound up taking the job himself. Soon he was production chief of the War Production Board, later served as Signal Corps procurement chief in the Army Service Forces. Harrison had major general's stars and a Distinguished Service Medal when he returned to A.T. & T., moved from there to the I.T. & T.** presidency...
Then the take-off signal went up all the way. First the Corsairs were shot from the catapults, then the big, rumbling Skyraider dive bombers; and after the propeller-driven craft were well away, the jets were brought forward. Started by motors hustled about the deck by tiny yellow jeeps, the Grumman Panthers shrieked protest, then raised their voices to a horrible, thundering howl as they shot from the catapults...