Word: cruft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shows. At the Royal Agricultural Hall, called the Coronation Show in honor of George VI, was the biggest dog show Britain had ever held except for last year's Golden Jubilee exhibition honoring George V. Manhattan's Westminster was the biggest in its 61 years. Cruft's* surpassed the Westminster not only in number of entries (4.352 to 3,144) but also in having on display ten Basenjis-little red dogs from the Belgian Congo which wash their faces with their paws, arch their backs when angry, chase lions and emit no sound but "groo," having lost...
Winner of the 1937 Cruft's in London last week was a Labrador retriever, Cheverells Ben of Banchory owned by Lorna, Countess Howe...
Dean Mimno's office is in Cruft; the Engineering School secretaries are in Pierce; dictation must be given and taken. Engineering brains were put to work to bridge the gap, and the Zeppelin was created to bear dictaphone rolls from dean to secretary and transcribed correspondence from secretary to dean...
Combining business with pleasure is being effectively done by Harry R. Mimno, Acting Dean of the Engeering School. Witness the Lilliputian Zoppelin which flies many times daily between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratories. At the end of the cableway which supports this busy aircraft are hangers, appropriately named Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst...
...Cruft boasts that with no outside aid its eight machanics have built a ten ton water-cooled magnet, a hydraulic press exerting a force of 70,000 atmospheres, a battery of 100,000 volts, hugh switch boards, five foot vacuum tubes and a unique short-wave radio station, WIZJ. A ninety-two ton magnet for unclear physics investigation is contemplated. The shops work all summer and have over 2000 parts in stock. Some eighty research men work with the Cruft and Coolidge machinery and mechanics, among whom are two expert glass-blowers...