Word: blaster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handfuls of slimy, muddy substance." Few minutes after he had put this muck near a stove, it came apart, turned out to be six drowsy frogs. He took them home, where during the next two days they gradually sat up and began to hop, croaked loud enough to keep Blaster Jordan & wife awake nights...
...being strictly evangelical, the Methodist hymnal contains a hymn by a Roman Catholic nun named Sister Mary Xavier and a hymn beginning Bless the four corners of this house by Arthur Guiterman, skittish versifier for magazines. It also contains some authentic poetry. Thus, Sidney Lanier: Into the woods my Blaster went, clean forspent, forspent; Into the woods my Master went, forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to him, The little grey leaves were kind to him, The thorn-tree had a mind to him, When into the woods he came...
...Wilson club, represented by Robert D. Blaster 2L, and Robert C. Vincent 2L, defeated the Marshall Club team, composed of William W. Foshay 2L and Samuel Spencer 2L in the first quarter-final match last Tuesday, with Justice Fred T. Field '03, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court acting as chief justice. Charles S. Maddock 2L and Martin A. Jurow 2L, of the Pollock Club reached the semi-finals by virtue of a victory over Henry H. Rightor 2L and Malcolm L. Munroe 2L, of the Bryce Club, with Justice John C. Crosby of the Massachusetts Supreme Court presiding...
...Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering who bought the radiotherm from General Electric (whose Chemist Willis Rodney Whitney built it after accidental discovery that short radio waves cause fever), figured that a draft of dry, hot air would evaporate the sweat, cool the uncomfortable patient. Mr. Kettering invented a successful blaster, using air almost hot enough to make water boil...
...went well with the Dayton work until last December when the blaster, for lack of an automatic disconnecter, set the whole device afire. No patient was in the hot box at the time. Within a week the group had complete new equipment, proceeded with more treatments. Last week another disaster occurred. As Dr. Simpson in Montreal prepared to read a report, his collaborator, Dr. Kislig, died in Dayton. Autopsy showed progressive heart failure following influenza. Dr. Simpson caught a train, left the paper for another to read. Radiotherm treatments at Dayton will continue...