Word: erector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though your little brother may settle for an erector set or a Lionel train, you may have a tough time finding a present for your room-mate, father, (or if you're from Radcliffe) your Harvard beau...
...scale models of Santa Fe and New York Central diesel trains. Trains will get lively competition from a new type of toy-the remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal with hand-operated locks and boats which are propelled by electrified bars along the side...
...that the tower is for television or something of the kind, but there is no reason to believe that insidious little story. Surely there is enough madness in the world already without a misplaced francophile trying to rival the Eiffel Tower with the sole aid of an erector set, thereby destroying Harvard's architectural symmetry...
With Lamont Library still in the erector set stage, the failure of Widener as an undergraduate library must continue to irritate students for the majority of their college tenure. Widener was planned exclusively as a research institution and stumbles into a welter of malfunctions when trying to cope with college needs. These inefficiencies comes as a direct result of an unequal scramble for books between undergraduates and research students and a poorly organized circulation system. Until Lamont Library provides the answer to College reference work, an interim system emphasizing student requirements rather than those of the 1500 men holding stack...
...Deep South execution chamber, after talking with four boys (one 16, two 17, one 19) who are soon to die there, the sheriff speaks with the tickled-pink fascination of a kid with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made...