Word: handly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colonel heard that an un-American blight was mottling the Ivy League, Griffin toured the Harvard, Yale and Princeton campuses. He proved (to the Tribune's satisfaction at least) that the Colonel had heard right. This fall the Trib got around to Dartmouth. When Griffin arrived, notebook in hand and hatchet up his sleeve, he got a cordial welcome. President John Sloan Dickey had reserved him a room at the Hanover Inn, and offered to show him everything-including a brand-new "Quality in Newspapers" exhibit in the library...
...difficult now for parents to hand on to children clear-cut standards of what is right and what is wrong in the relations of the sexes . . . The air is blue with insistent voices . . . analyzing behavior as 'normal' which in the past we were accustomed to associate with the gutter...
...remote-controlled gadgets. They include a windup auto controlled by a long wire ($2.29), an electric truck operated by a 35-ft. cord ($39.50) and Erector's new $50 set to build a mechanical man that actually walks. Most complex of all is a plastic canal with hand-operated locks and boats which are propelled by electrified bars along the side...
After trying their hand at improving everything from paper clips to superliners, U.S. industrial designers finally got around to their fellow beings. At a Manhattan meeting of the Society of Industrial Designers last week, they held a contest to design a "functional man," or, as they put it, "an animal which would be a better solution to the very environmental problems which man has created...
...aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items of special equipment: an inner-view mirror (to keep an eye on his ulcers...