Word: bugaboo
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Thus did potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. show that its new "Lifeguard Tube" had beaten the No. 1 bugaboo of U. S. motorists-the danger of loss of control following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with...
Plautus, Torence, and Livy are highly recommended as interesting studies in Latin B, while Greek B is the only other classical course in the good graces of the guide. History 1, that old bugaboo which drives many into electing Government 1, is surprisingly lauded, for "Dominating the course is Professor Merriman, who from the fall of Rome to the peace of Versailles sees that the leading facts, figures, and events are portrayed with coherence and continuity...
Plautus, Terence, and Livy are highly recommended as interesting studies in Latin B, while Greek B is the only other classical course in the good graces of the guide. History 1, that old bugaboo which drives many into electing Government 1, is surprisingly lauded, for "Dominating the course is Professor Merriman, who from the fall of Rome to the peace of Versailles sees that the leading facts, figures, and events are portrayed with coherence and continuity...
Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken: The talk about the "brain trust" is all blather. It always was. People have always wanted brains in their rulers, when they could find them. It is not the brain trust that was the bugaboo. It is youth. What frightened Dr. Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks...
Much has been written and more said about that most annoying of the University's pet rules and regulations, devised to poster students in general, land impractical students in particular, that bugaboo of bugaboos, the Science requirement...