Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London a first novel entitled The Madonna of the Barricades appeared in quantities on the display racks of booksellers. Semi-literates, attracted by the title, thumbed it just sufficiently to discover that its characters had been set amid the French Revolution of 1848. When they found no stimulating literary garbage interlarded as a bait for popularity, they laid the book aside...
...will find himself in a moral dilemma. Regardless of sect or creed, all followers of Christ must accept His teaching that the lay of life is love, that service to others is the true guiding principle, that self-sacrifice, even to death, is the best trait a man can display...
...glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water. "See, it still burns furiously. And in that vat of molten lead, too. Reason: our patent pumps...
...soon as the Chemical Exposition (see above) closed its doors and dismantled its display, into the "palace" sped men with hammers, saws, paints, brushes, tweezers, nippers, screwdrivers, wire and tapes, to prepare new wonders for the public eye-the 18th annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless...
...There is a dismal display of ignorance on the part of people in general as to the work which the social service workers are engaged in," he continued. "Most of them think it to be one form of socialism or another. Others mistake it for charity only as such. Charity is, to be sure, a large department of social service, but it is the repair department...