Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting...
Up and up he went. His supercharger (a device for furnishing the mixing-chamber with sea-level conditions) went out of commission at 25,000 feet. Still he climbed. At 35,900 feet his engine balked. He wheeled and began to slide down to Dayton. He had failed by 3...
Late despatches added little to this tale of wanton slaughter. Only three other passengers were mentioned, all of whom escaped: Mr. Russell, a mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once...
"Have you learned that the human engine whose poisonous waste is not removed each day is on the road to an early breakdown?
Journalistic wit and an old proverb united delectably on the front page of yesterday's Boston Herald. A telephone call, which specified house and street, but not the need, sent an engine of the Atlantic fire department clanging out into the snow. The destination was quickly attained, but, before the...