Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reduction-powerful pumps compress oxygen, hydrogen or acetylene into tall, slim, thick-walled steel tanks for welding or burning through metal; incandescent bulb makers buy nitrogen and argon-profits...
...which he drew from his pocket was, he explained, a radio receiving set. He snowed how the aerial, a tiny wire, could be fastened to the lapel, buttons or cuffs of one's coat. He brought out collapsible earphones and an electric bulb to be attached to one's person conveniently. The bulb would signal when one was being called. It would signal to policemen on their beats, for instance, if headquarters wanted to broadcast the description and license number of an automobileful of thugs fleeing town. Chief Zober and his aids were impressed by the device...
Universal radio terminology; standard aluminum specifications; uniform size of bulb stems and light sockets; the failure of British bolts to interact with U. S. bolts, and vice versa, necessitating a hardware entente...
...taxi whose driver shrilly squawked his little bulb horn whizzed up to the door. Out stepped the returning U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore was welcomed with acclaim. From his native Pittsburgh to Madrid he is known as a good fellow cast in the Gargantuan mold...
...Story. Mr. Winkelberg, a paunchy Dutch biped, sold cheap jewelry in Chicago. In the hairy bulb between Mr. Winkelberg's shoulders was accumulated a small mass of miscellaneous garbage which Mr. Winkelberg called his opinions, his beliefs, his reasons...