Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day President von Hindenburg decreed that the German Army and Navy, heretofore technically independent of the Nazi Party, must wear the Nazi swastika on their cockades and their uniforms. Tailors went to work stitching braid swastikas on service uniforms, gold for the Navy, silver for the Reichswehr...
Prizeman Werner Heisenberg of the University of Leipzig is a self-assured young German who enjoys his scientific prestige as much as he does playing the piano. His father is Professor of Medieval & Modern Greek at the University of Munich; an uncle is a Manhattan braid manufacturer. He has visited the U. S. twice, went home the first time by way of Japan. On one of his visits a Columbia physicist complimented him gracefully on the contrast between his youth and his achievements. Replied Dr. Heisenberg: "You know what they call the new physics in Germany? They call...
...Last week Western Union messenger boys in Manhattan and Chicago were issued new uniforms: darker "forestry grey," with gold instead of black braid, with new eight-pointed caps. The new uniforms will be put on Western Union messengers throughout the U. S. Every night all messengers have to turn in their uniforms to be pressed (and periodically cleaned), their puttees to be shined. †Rev. James Henry Wiggin, retired from the Unitarian ministry in 1875, edited theological and technical manuscripts for the Cambridge Press. According to his own account he was employed by Mrs. Eddy and spent four years...
...novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create an atmosphere that the sailor cap, sweater, and black tie somehow fail to achieve...
...first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...