Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Collings was questioned and requestioned. Theories of piracy, kidnapping, murder were advanced. On the Penguin were found bloodstains, a broken milk bottle, a broken oar, a revolver and knife which Mr. Collings had not attempted to use. In the boat's tender was an air-cushion which Mrs. Collings said she tried to throw to her husband. The anchor was missing. A canoe in which Mrs. Collings might have been carried off was found. Six days later a Lloyd's Harbor policeman making his routine patrol of the beach on the Marshall Field estate came upon the body...
...Connecticut shore of the Sound. She heard a struggle, a man's voice saying: "Don't tie his hands too tight." She heard her husband cry: "They're putting me overboard!" Looking out. she saw him fall into the water. She threw him an air-cushion, which one of the pirates retrieved. Then the two men put her into their canoe. They paddled for a long time, back across the Sound, she believed. One of them tried to attack her. Finally they put her in the anchored Bo Peep, with several blankets, and paddled away...
...taller of the two, gawky, long-haired, bespectacled, clad in rough homespun and a towering collar, was Auguste Piccard, 47, Swiss professor of physics in the University of Brussels. The other was his assistant, Charles Kipfer, 20 years his junior. On their heads were baskets stuffed with pillows, to cushion them in case of a sudden drop of their gondola. They had been preparing for this ascension since last summer, had tried and failed last autumn (TIME, Sept. 22) and were now aloft largely because of the backing of King Albert's favorite Fund for Scientific Research. Their purpose...
...rather an unattractive dog: six years old, fat, phlegmatic, sleepy. Once he was more charming, in fact his name originally was Charming Billy.* It was probable that he would be sent to the country. It was not true that he had had his own bed and table: just a cushion and blanket...
...imperceptible cushion of air held between a thumb and forefinger when their tips rub gently against each other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...