Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unspeakable idea." The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, led by George Woodward Wickersham, flayed Senator Hofstadter as "unfit to hold judicial office" and got busy trying to frame an independent ticket. One item of the deal was that city Republicans were not to fuse with independent Democrats to beat Tammany but were to nominate a flabby figure of their own who could...
...Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital he was billeted in a Government-owned building on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of thousands, he took part in the demonstration at the Capitol the day Congress adjourned without voting immediate cashing...
When Engineer Sprague tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines, a fuse blew out. scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars...
...Societies Building, Manhattan, with hundreds of celebrities present. An Annapolis graduate, Scientist Sprague specialized in electricity, was for a year affiliated with Thomas Alva Edison. He organized Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co., tried to get Jay Gould to electrify Manhattan's steam-powered elevated lines. During a demonstration, a fuse blew out, scared Financier Gould out of all interest in electric cars. Later in Richmond, Va., Mr. Sprague successfully constructed an electric surface line. Within two years 200 other U. S. cities had trolley lines, 110 of them Sprague-built. He perfected fast electric elevators and the multiple-unit control...
...ordinarily brightly lighted Freshman dining hall in the Harvard Union took on a mediaeval aspect last night at dinner time, when the main fuse blew out, and the five or six hundred men who were eating there at the time were left in total darkness...