Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canadian papers described it somewhat cryptically as the finest automobile ever made in Canada," "a 75-horse-power limousine," "made at Oshawa, Ontario," "with a silver Canadian beaver on the radiator cap," "especially constructed so that it can be used in England, when Lord Byng returns there." Though the make was not mentioned, knowing U.S. motorists suspected the car of being a 75-horse-power "McLaughlin Buick" turned out at the Canadian Buick works, Oshawa, Ontario, and with the steering wheel fitted on the right-hand side of the body...
...There are many ways of committing white slavery," suggested the Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society in a momentary digression. "One could do it by crouching in a dark alley with a slouch cap drawn over his eyes and a chloroform handkerchief in one hand and a pistol in the other ready to jump upon the victim and toss her unconscious into an automobile, and lock her up later in a room, or one can open a cafe and enliven it with music and attract young women there as a miller is drawn toward the light, then fill their...
...very badly. We. organize our commerce so that he has no other way of making a living and we cannot get along without him; then on slightest provocation we clap him into jail; we pass laws against him when he joins the I. W. W., and finally, to cap it all off, we make fun of him. We are ever ungrateful to those who serve us, but it would seem that we could find a better way to treat him. Perhaps we should contribute something to the endowment of his college...
This year Dr. Howard T. Barnes of McGill University will try to destroy icebergs at their source, in the Greenland glaciers. Here the ice cap is 7,000 feet thick. Vast bits break off at the sea edges to float south to the Newfoundland banks as bergs. Dr. Barnes hopes to smash the glacier edges with thermite, a chemical which develops enormous heat in contact with ice.* (TIME, March...
...course is based essentially on knowledge of the rules of the game. It contains a masterly tabloid exegesis of the law in such finical situations as a player's throwing his cap at a passing ball, two runners on one base, premature decisions (e. g., a bunt declared foul rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon...