Word: crompton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crompton, England, a large stupid cow waddled into a candy shop. The man of the shop beat the cow, tugged its horns, pushed its hindquarters, fed the cow candy. At this the cow waddled into the narrow doorway and got stuck. The man of the shop poured whiskey into the cow's mouth. Then the cow mooed, wriggled out of the doorway and walked away...
...referred to the International Electro-Technical Commission of which he and his fellow travelers are members. They had come to Manhattan for a ten-day sitting, the first they ever held in the U. S. The lean gentleman was Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton, who takes pardonable pride, not only in his Boer War decorations and his fast game of squash, but in having founded the commission...
...lunch the next day, Dr. C. A. Mailloux, honorary president of the commission, refused to speak until the gallant Colonel Crompton, his old friend and associate, roared out: "Your father orders you to speak!" Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers-Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb...
...interesting test. A man without these gifts has seldom blazed out very brightly in the march of the Immortals through history, whatever his real achievements, and no man possessing them has ever been quite forgotten, although his major vocation in life was neither art nor literature. Who remembers Arkwright, Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves...
...Alexander, box 21; A. L. Benjamin, box 86; D. Berman, box 26; J. L. Bodge, box SS; J. C. Bolton, box 60; B. Carpenter, box 3; F. C. Church Jr., box 14; G. Crompton Jr., box 6; F. R. Davis, box 1; P. R. Doolin, box 68; C. W. Eliot 2d, box-16; B. S. Field, box 18; R. Fiske Jr., box 12; E. Fleischmann, box 35; J. C. S. Fleming, box 5; D. E. Gardner, box 4; G. C. D. Gardner, boxes 38 and 40; E. Ginsburgh, boxes 82 and 84; H. Ginsburgh, boxes...