Word: fabricate
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...staff, he was operating the dirigible Sachsen when the War began. As a raider, he bombed Antwerp once, London twice, afterwards claimed he could have destroyed the British capital completely if the Germans had so desired. Once he went home with 400 bullet holes in his ship's fabric. Continuing in the profession after the War, he rose to be assistant director of the Zeppelin works, alternated with Dr. Eckener as commander of the Graf. For four years (1923-27) he worked for the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. in Akron, almost took out U. S. citizenship papers. He thinks...
...knitting-machine operator, brought in by his employer, inspected a strange new device. He pushed a lever. The loom began to clank as tiny lights winked on a control box attached to the wall. Red, blue and yellow threads spun off their spools, were knitted into an intricately patterned fabric. The puzzled operator peered over, beneath and behind the row of darting needles, looking for a chain of perforated cards. There were no cards. Enthusiastic demonstrators of this new robot, called the Lefier machine, claimed that it was the longest advance in pattern reproduction since Jacquard...
...such intangible but potentially powerful ideas that the value of sending students abroad must be discovered. Here one finds intimately connected education, peace, and all the other worth-while ideals of mankind. As a stitch in the vast fabric of human events, these student ambassadors, quantitatively considered, represent little. But when many such stitches are woven together in a thread, the direction of events may be changed...
...offered $20 for each & every jallopy delivered at Dearborn. So great was the rush that he had to set up a demolition line functioning in reverse of an assembly line. Before a car was finally dumped into a furnace cupola it was stripped of glass, tires, battery, upholstery, top fabric, copper, brass. Serviceable equipment was sold to Ford employes, the rest used to the last scrap in the meticulous Ford economy. More than 300,000 jallopies were junked before the demolition line finally shut down...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh, with his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their 3-year-old son Jon, sailed furtively out of New York Harbor toward Europe aboard the S. S. American Importer. On that slender foundation of fact the U. S. Press last week reared as enormous a fabric of conjecture, rumor, implication and denunciation as has been built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets at 4 a. m. The New York American...