Word: gadgetized
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...curious new chemical last week achieved something of a vogue as a social toy in Manhattan. Gadget-loving hosts introduced it at family gatherings; the Manhattan press ran feature stories; the New Yorker took notice. This entertaining material is a kind of putty which can be pulled and kneaded like taffy but has a surprising, unputty-like property-when rolled into a ball and dropped on a hard surface, it bounces...
...Assured a group of Polish-American voters that he believes "Poland must be reconstituted as a great nation." The delegation stayed 55 minutes at the White House, stood around the gadget-cluttered desk to get a discourse on geography from the President...
...ingenious aerial-delivery gadget was announced by the Air Technical Service Command last week. It is a rotary wing, shaped much like an ordinary maple seed, that twirls to earth without benefit of "umbrella" or rigging. The bulbous plastic container, hitched to the wooden blade, can hold 65 lbs. The rate of fall is slightly faster than a parachute's, but the "Sky Hook" is not subject to the wind drift that makes parachuting of supplies inaccurate from high (safe) altitudes...
...Compos-A-Tune was invented by Louis Ruben, a round-faced, bespectacled citizen of Bayonne, N.J. A disciple of the late Joseph Schillinger, Manhattan musicologist who believed symphonies might someday be manufactured by machinery, Ruben based his gadget on an analysis of more than 1,000 popular tunes...
This colossal gadget was invented by Harvard's Associate Professor (now Commander) Howard H. Aiken, with the assistance of engineers of International Business Machines Corp., which built the machine and presented it to Harvard last week. Its calculating versatility is much greater than that of the even more complicated differential analyzer, developed by Vannevar Bush and associates at M.I.T. (TIME, Nov. 29), which merely solves intricate differential equations...