Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vocal impulses in the wording of a command are not delivered just right, Elektro may apparently disobey. In Pittsburgh last week the robot made nice publicity for himself by disobeying his master. His designer, Engineer J. M. Barnett, practicing signals for reporters, ordered him to raise one arm. Instead he started walking backward, kept on walking backward even when commanded to stop by the engineer, who grew a little excited-and still less careful of his phrasing. Elektro might have backed through a wall had not Robotmaster Barnett shut off his supply of electric power...
Prof. Murdock (Master), Prof. Wright, Mr. Barnett: Fri. 3-5 o'clock. (Prof. Murdock will be available from 3-3:30 o'clock only...
...record of 3:39.6 was set by former Yale leader Macionis in 1936. The Lion captain beat Al Van de Weghe, Princeton star by two yards in the final, after each had won his heat in the preliminaries. Ed Kent, Columbia; Frank Ferguson, Colgate; Huldane Wilson, Yale and Barnett Phillips, Yale finished in that order behind the leaders. This is the first year that the 300 individual medley has been contested in the League championships, and Callahan's record should stand for some time...
Just before Jackson Barnett died in 1934, supposedly aged 92, the Government had their 13-year marriage annulled on the grounds that the old redskin had been "kidnapped by an adventuress." Marshal Clark, an old buffalo hunter and army man who prided himself on never having used violence in executing a court order, at first seemed stymied by Mrs. Barnett's tactics. But early one morning when his customary audience was home in bed, he and twelve deputies cautiously moved up on the house. Mrs. Barnett, in the back yard feeding her pet cockatoo, ran in, bolted the door...
When the invaders knocked their way in, they saw Mrs. Barnett at the top of the stairs, brandishing a hatchet. "Get out of here, you gangsters!" shrilled fat Mrs. Barnett. Seeing two women deputies, she screamed: "And keep your old fish hags out of here, too." Blinded by a whiff of tear gas. she hurled the hatchet downstairs before the deputies grabbed her. In the house Marshal Clark found Mrs. Maxine Sturgis, her daughter by her first husband, no dynamite but a large, menacing supply of jagged stones. Homeless Mrs. Barnett and daughter, still protesting, were bundled off to jail...