Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperatore! Imperatore! Salute Imperatore!" chanted the crowd when Vittorio Emanuele, in full Army uniform, showed himself on a balcony. The first Roman Emperor in 1,460 years raised his withered hand to the visor of his cap, said nothing...
...American policy of advocating insurance in a loud voice, refusing to take the responsibility of paying the premium, and then raising a loud howl when the building is half burned. It not only flagrantly disregards the true facts of the case, but is the usual type of crown to cap the parlor patriotism on the front pages of the last few days. The same attitude has been especially conspicuous in the case of the League and the World Court. Congress praised and advocated collective security and international justice, but when directly faced with the issue backed down...
...Wheeling-at the same time presenting us with his check for $5,000. . . . With reference to the implication in your statement that the Heinz Co. donated the food because of inability to determine what the cans contained, it may interest you to learn that through letters stamped on the cap of each tin of Heinz products, it is always possible to identify the contents. I know Mr. Heinz would not think of offering us foods of questionable quality and we, of course, could not consider accepting such foods from anybody...
...companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink of the paving. Three times automobiles or trucks have bumped him. In every case his bus was standing stock-still...
...physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube over a flame. The cap blew off. Some of the radium compound spurted into the faces, nostrils and mouths of the two men. Instantly they felt burns...