Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week's convention of the American Gas Association at Atlantic City, brought forth new gifts which gasmen have learned to wring from their favorite commodity, or which are under way. Gas-Cold. The Consolidated Gas Co. of New York declared that January would behold quantity production of a "foolproof," silent refrigerator without any moving parts,* in which a liquid is kept circulating by a gas flame. At one point in its circuit, the liquid absorbs heat, producing cold. Housewives could see themselves "lighting...
Engineers. The aeronautics section of the Society of Automotive Engineers went into session. One speaker was Professor Alexander Klemin, onetime aeronautics editor of TIME, lately head of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University. He spoke of the "foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower...
Such a vote as yesterday's is only an indication of public opinion. This can shows that most Harvard men trust the league issue with Senator Harding, and that they refuse to endorse a man who endorses Wilsonism. It also shows that in the long run public opinion is foolproof and cannot be changed overnight by any campaign methods, especially those that make use of ridicule and bitterness at the expense of finding out what people want. The Republicans here can boom the final weeks of the political campaign with the knowledge that most Harvard men are back of them...