Word: dropper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas City, Mr. & Mrs. William St. John had a son "the world's smallest baby"-1 lb., 14 in. Otherwise normal, the baby was nested among hot water bottles in a cardboard box, fed with a medicine dropper. Three six-foot uncles grinned. The Press, attempting to promote a competition, found a 1.19-lb. baby in Berlin, a 3-lb. baby, two months old, in Boone...
...located at the transmitting end, inverts ordinary speech in much the same way that a camera lens sets the image of an object on its head. Low tones become high squeaks, high pitches turn into low grunts. Tones are changed in frequency, resulting in a language which no eaves- dropper could understand. At the receiving end of the radio telephone a translating apparatus changes the inverted tones back to normal. The "scram-bled speech" invention is already used by five transatlantic radio telephone channels. Bell Telephone Laboratories' staff of researchers-3,000 scientists and engineers-is now working...
...miners' war. Governor Flem D. Sampson had refused troops to Webster County many times previously, was not last week asked. But State and Federal authorities acted quickly to apprehend Flyer Paul Montgomery of Murphysboro, Ill., who said he had been forced by death-threats to take a bomb-dropper over Providence. Said Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics: "The dropping of explosives or anything else from a plane in flight, deliberately with intention . . . or by negligence, is a crime...