Word: signalling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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OBSERVATIONS OF THUNDERSTORMS IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES SIGNAL SERVICE: SECOND SEASON...
...England Meteorological Society has posted notices asking for young men who wish to act as weather observers during the coming summer. This work is to be carried on through out New England in connection with the United States signal service...
...through with a clipping stroke and took her stand on the outside; '86 had some difficulty in getting ready, but took up her position between '87 and the freshmen. The boats were got into line with comparative promptness, and at 1.55 p.m. Mr. Borland fired the gun as a signal to start...
...RACE.At the signal, the crews went off with a rush, '89 and '87 setting the pace at 38, with '88 a little in the lead, and rowing 36. The latter soon separated from her rivals, hugging the shore and dropping her stroke to 34. A beautiful struggle for the lead now began between the three other boats, '86 holding it for a few rods and then yielding it to '87, who, in turn succumbed to '89. At the sluiceway '87 had the lead with the freshmen one and '86 two or three lengths behind. The '88 crew seemingly...
...signal for a recall will be a succession of short whistles, but there will be no recall after the first ten strokes have been rowed...