Word: fan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the third week of May, Albania has been the field of many battles. These may be said to have culminated during the past week with the establishment of a National Provisional Government at Tirana under the Premiership of Bishop Fan Stylian Noli, Harvard graduate...
...business to repair radios, so I know something about them. Yet I must confess that when I tuned into your concert the other night, I thought my set was broken", wrote a radio fan to the lampoon staff who broadcasted a humorous concert from Station WNAC on Friday evening...
Dean Briggs was a "fan"--at least in baseball. Of the practical side of athletic management he pretended to no experience. His committee was composed of two other Deans whose experience was less than his, although they were most anxious to learn and to be helpful; of three distinguished graduates whose mature judgment and practical experience were invaluable, but who were not very sympathetic to the criticism of competitive athletics as such; and of three undergraduates of whom it is enough to say that they represented the undergraduate point of view...
...monster bulb is of 150,000 candlepower and requires four large cables to supply the 30,000 watts it burns. Four long strips of heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman, is experimenting with a type of quartz glass to withstand the heat. Red rays are absent from the spectrum of the big bulb, which closely resembles that of sunlight. The lamp will be used in moving picture studios and color photography. The minute...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...