Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gadget of the week: a "student reaction meter" invented by two professors of engineering at the University of Tennessee. Henceforth, a student in the college of engineering will be able to protest that he doesn't understand what the teacher is saying by merely pressing his own special button, wired to a meter on the professor's desk. The more buttons, pressed, the more the needle will quiver, and the more it will behoove the professor to make himself clearer...
...European thinkers-French, German, and especially English-and their Greek and Hebrew forebears . . . What a gross impertinence it would be if an American intellectual should actually ask Europeans to defend the democratic tradition without at the same time acknowledging that the free citizen is in large part no American gadget but Europe's greatest creation...
...machine is the latest gadget of the power garden tool business, an industry that has sprung up like crab grass since the war. All over the U.S. last week, men were revving up their power mowers and heading into the wild green yonder with all the enthusiasm of fighter pilots climbing into the sun. Children were cleaning up as much as $75 a week, making the neighborhood rounds with the family machine. Sears, Roebuck reported it was selling one power mower for every two non-powered machines...
What were the mysterious blips? The Air Force, unless it was trying to conceal some mysterious gadget of its own (e.g., a radar countermeasure), was as baffled as everyone else. As might be expected, the phantom invasion touched off a whole new rash of flying-saucer stories. But if the men from Mars were really overhead, the oddest part of the whole strange story was the fact that among all the conflicting reports, no radar outside of a ten-mile radius in Washington reported seeing anything unusual at any time...
...Russians said they need the place for expanding Moscow University, which is next door. The embassy building, erected in 1933 to house Soviet artists and composers, costs the U.S. an annual rent of 250,000 rubles (about $62,500). Shoddily made and shy of electrical outlets for the gadget-loving Americans, 13-15 Mokhovaya also has its advantages-it is only a mile from the Ambassador's residence (a pre-revolutionary palace called Spaso House), and has a window on the Kremlin, across a couple of acres of police-guarded asphalt...