Word: clerked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executive offices, the connecting link between all administrations since McKinley's is Clerk Rudolph Forster. President Hoover will never have to say "What do I do now?" because Clerk Forster, a slim gentleman with heavy spectacles and a solemn air, will be there at his elbow from the very first moment, anticipating, suggesting, directing, reminding, educating...
...great many uses are predicted for the Robot, for example: acting as information clerk at a railroad station, answering the telephone or telling absolutely accurate time. It has already broadcasted over the radio and, by next year, it will be able to sing...
Other men discovered electricity; others magnetism. They phrased mathematical laws which explained in a rule-of-thumb way, electrical and magnetic action. James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79) put these laws most precisely?and made electricity and magnetism nearly the same thing. Maxwell's laws made possible electric light and power, telephones, radios...
...inspected electrical and magnetic phenomena. Everyone knows, and had known, that they are intimately related. Electricity flowing through a wire coiled around a piece of iron makes that iron magnetic. As a piece of wire passes between the prongs of a horseshoe magnet, an electric current is generated. James Clerk Maxwell showed that the laws of electricity and of magnetism were very much alike. Albert Einstein, in 1905. showed that the forces were different aspects of the same mother force...
Trial. Last week the trial began. Rubberneckers swarmed into the Manhattan courtroom of the U. S. Supreme Court as though legal curtains were about to be raised on the scene of some glamorous crime. The jury, chosen for its ignorance of Leonardo, was composed of a clerk, two agents, two realtors, an accountant, a shirtmaker, an artist, a poster artist, an upholsterer, a vendor of ladies' wear and a man without occupation. Chief counsel for Mrs. Hahn was large, ironic S. Lawrence Miller. His opponent was excitable Lawyer George W. Whiteside. The room was littered with books on esthetics...