Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pocket Vesuvius. A hot drink can easily be prepared in a snowstorm with a new pestle-like gadget called the Heatron Stirrer. It has a small cylinder on one end vhich contains a cartridge-like charge. Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point. Price, including six charges...
...first thing the British Ryder Cup golf team did upon reaching the U.S., was to consume ten man-sized steaks-one per man. Then, in subsequent meals, they shoveled in eggs and chops and more steak. They hadn't eaten like that since Hitler started his march through Europe. Said Commander C.R.T. Roe, the non-playing British captain: "The ham I ate for breakfast would last a month in England." They ate their way cross-country to Portland, Ore. and arrived on the playing scene as contented, and as unready for battle, as a cat with canary feathers...
...Hogan & Co. of the U.S. were waiting on the rain-flooded Portland Golf Club course to take them apart. They did, 11-1. It was the worst shellacking any Ryder Cup team had taken in 16 years. Said Britain's crack pro Henry Cotton: "We didn't deserve...
...hurtling railroad diner causes many a slip 'twixt cup and lip. Seasoned travelers know a goopish trick to keep their coffee from sloshing into the saucer: stick a spoon in the cup. Now science has come up with a trick worth two of that. Last week Westinghouse proudly announced an invention which it called the most important since the development of the spring: a super shock-absorber system that promises to smooth out the roughest roadbed. Now a passenger will be able to stroll the length of the train without sitting on a stranger...
...reward of the former Czech president's nephew, and eventually the same for even the one unlucky rider stopped by a flat, was not the kiss of former years but a cookie and a cup of cider. Later the weary peddlers also enjoyed a brief picnic with the Wellesley greeting committee...