Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recognition comes late to all great inventors. In Maine it has just been discovered that the man who invented the hole in the doughnut has been dead fourteen years. He has, however, been nominated for the Hall of Fame...
...American's. Called "the radio direction-finder and anti-rain-static loop antennae," it was developed by TWA's communications department under Engineer John Curtis Franklin. Radio direction-finders are not new, come in a half-dozen makes (TIME, March 25, 1935). In general they are doughnut-shaped loops sticking through the fuselage. By turning the loop and listening, the pilot can learn the direction of any radio station, for when the loop faces directly toward the station the signals disappear. A pilot can get bearings on, two separate radio stations, thus triangulate his position. But the ordinary...
...word no longer able to bear the strain put upon it, but the Harvard man's lack of interest in the foibles of his neighbors is traditional and accurate. As there is no uniformity in manners, so there is no catholicity in taste. If a Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should not strip his walls...
...been minted since 1857, and aluminum mills, which have, up to now, been a money of account found only in school books. Object: to enable citizens to pay fractional cents of sales taxes. Franklin Roosevelt thought it was a great idea to save people money, personally sketched a "doughnut" half cent and a square mill, visioned citizens getting bargains...
...recent appearance of doughnuts on breakfast menus may indicate that the Director of Athletics has interested himself in this latest intercollegiate competition. If this be the case the student body should endeavor to compete. Experience has shown that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful...