Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge him to a blighting contest tomorrow if I thought it would do any good. But I guess If Harvard's going to act like that there's very little I can do about it. I hereby lay even money, though, that Downer turns out to be a very dynamo of energy, and as for his being a blighter, I'll bet he's a quivering mass of social graces. --The Yale Daily News...
This year, with a $140,000,000 appropriation, REA hopes to triple its loans and its importance. REA's dynamo is Administrator John Michael Carmody, a Pennsylvanian who went to the New Deal as chief engineer for the Civil Works Administration, was one of the early members of the National Labor Relations Board. Thin-thatched, energetic Administrator Carmody can be tough on occasion, especially when he discovers that private utility companies have built "spite lines...
...powerful dynamo generating nothing," her crotchets finally became almost surrealistic. She bought a hideous house at Brighton, spent $250,000 to remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half...
...addition to these highly specialized laboratories, the department has modern dynamo and standards laboratories operated under the direction of Mr. R. T. Gibbs...
...invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator was connected to this mobile supply, and the truck proceeded to a special train which Fred Snite Sr. had hired. A baggage coach contained a gasoline-driven dynamo and an extra respirator in case Fred Jr.'s broke down...