Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, her innards repaired, she does backbreaking work until the sun goes down. She lugged a daybed and an armchair through the Square yesterday...
...armchair lecturegoer with a simple twist of the wrist can hear anything from Homer's Odyssey to an explanation of the weather by lecturers drawn from the staffs of Harvard, Boston College, Boston University Lowell Institute, M.I.T. Northeastern, and Tufts...
...story of her harum-scarum voyage, well and engagingly told, was first published in England in 1939, but smothered by the war along with other travel books by leisurely private adventurers. If armchair circumnavigators are now willing to knock about under sail without even wireless aboard, much less radar, the Cap Pilar is their craft...
Bedside Manners. "I pushed into the room," wrote pushy Clark Lee, an A.P. star who turned Hearstling (with I.N.S.) in midwar. "Tojo lay back in a small armchair, his eyes closed. . . . Blood oozed slowly from a wound just above his heart. . . . The American reporters pushed past Tojo, brushing his knees, talking loudly and excitedly. Photographers shoved their cameras in the wounded man's face...
Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price...