Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zenith's Phonevision, . .which pipes the unscrambling signal over telephone lines, with the charges going on monthly telephone bills (TIME, June 4); 2) Skiatron, which equips TV receivers with built-in "decoders" that are operated by special plastic cards; 3) Telemeter, which attaches a coin-in-the-slot gadget directly...
Only by such a countrywide reawakening . . . will our "gadget" civilization become a civilization which will enkindle the minds, hearts and souls of the Western world with Christian optimism, rather than this continued wallowing in secular pragmatism...
...turns out vacuum cleaners, electric fans and irons. Singer makes close to 4,000 different sewers, from a child's model sewing machine (three Ibs.) to a giant industrial machine (2,526 lbs.), designs them to do everything from sewing up sausage casings to finishing casket linings. Latest gadget: a seamer that binds plastics together with an electric current instead of a needle & thread. Most of Singer's output is still in home sewing machines (most popular U.S. model: the "Featherweight Portable," priced...
...that point, President Tubman's political machine started whirring angrily, softened up opposition politicos as efficiently as President Tubman's other gadget tenderizes a tenderloin. By the time Liberia's 200,000 voters trooped to the polls last fortnight, the contest had been settled privately. Twe and all other opposition candidates had withdrawn their names from the ballot. Tubman was in for another four years...
...living illustrating children's books and designing toys. In Chicago three years ago, Artist Nudelman designed a little toy pig that would cling to a cereal bowl, "eat" anything fed to it, and then inconspicuously drop its food back into the bowl. Entranced by Nudelman's gadget, Chicago's Topic Toys sent "Hungry Piggy" off to market and got a patent. But soon the pig had unwanted company...