Word: gadgetized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American inventors, however, had cause to hang their heads in mortification. According to a news story out of London last week, an English colonel had invented the gadget which seemed most suited to the mood of the U.S.-a mechanical "morale raiser" which cried "Bravo! Well done! Good show!", clapped its owner on the back in a friendly way and burst into uproarious laughter when he told a joke...
Undergraduate opinion should perhaps be crystallized on permitting the inroads television has been making into student life. One housemaster seemed resigned. "Like any other gadget," he said, "TV is inevitable as the plague, and performing a useful function on occasions...
Last week Squadron 375 was sure it had the twilight problem pretty nearly licked. One gadget it has found useful is the Pfund† sky compass which polarizes light reflected from the sky-and points to the spot on the horizon directly above the invisible sun. When used with the proper tables, the sky compass gives the direction in which the plane is flying...
...never been arrested before," he said, as officers went through his pockets before putting him in a cell. "All this is pretty amazing." When the U.S. marshal held up an odd-looking tool he had been carrying, he explained: "That's the handiest gadget. It opens bottle tops and cans and things." He beamed as the marshal answered: "We'd better keep this pocket-sized machine shop. It might open a jail door, too." Before he was led away he said, approvingly: "It certainly is good to know the federal agents . . . and security officers are really on their...
...still a live political issue. Politician Harry Truman had recognized the potential magic of a gadget that promised something for everybody. He was also cagily capitalizing on the farmers' new worry. In the past two years, farm income-despite high prices and high supports-had bounced downward about 20%. This was mostly a natural decline from artificial alltime price highs in wartime, but, citing the price drops in a direful voice, the President implied that it wouldn't happen again-provided the farmers voted for the Brannan Plan and, incidentally, the Democrats...