Word: hook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steaming war-vessel, pitching and rolling as it must, is a risky proposition. The deck looks broad to any one standing on it, but it is a mere strip to the anxious pilot. As the wheels of the airplane touch the landing surface, the pilot drops a large hook which engages with wires laid across the deck so as to secure a quick stop, smaller hooks engage with wires running along the length of the ship and prevent the airplane from turning...
Newspapers, however, have been very independent about bowing to the creature rushing hither and yon. They have stooped to headlines, to be sure, but that has been merely a hook thrown out to coach the business man. The special editions which have become customary, and the ever-increasing Sunday supplements are more like an obstinate challenge to him. Every newsstand was once a command to stop and think: but now the presses move faster than ever. The business man has nearly been forced to admit defeat...
...fighting airplanes suspended from it ready to fly off at a moment's notice. Lengthy studies of this problem by the Army Air Service culminated in success last week at Mitchel Field, L. I. A large ring was placed on the upper wing of an airplane and a hook of corresponding dimensions was hung from the passenger gondola of an airship. The airplane pilot regulated his speed till it was no greater than that of the dirigible and was picked up and carried along without the slightest difficulty. The apparatus will be modified in detail only, and will permit...
...those harbors in the United States which have a dense enough hinterland to make bootlegging and liquor running highly lucrative. Scranton, Philadelphia, and Trenton are supplied by the fleet which lies off Highland, New Jersey. New York is fed from the sea by a fleet anchored off Sandy Hook and in the neighboring waters. San Francisco gets its Mexican, Canadian, and Japanese liquors from the armada plying outside the Golden Gate. Boston and the lesser New England ports are infested with smugglers from the Bahamas and the West Indies...
Professor Kittredge once said that he marvelled at the genius of the "skin-clad savage (name and date unknown) who first invented the fish-hook or the blow-gun or the fire-drill." It is possible that the genius of this ancient savage has been grossly under-rated. Heretofore scientists alone have examined the records of the rocks and runes. Why not turn loose upon these records devotees of electrical lore or send into the tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen those with a hobby for automobiles? Then, thanks to the hobby-horse, perhaps the world will learn that the Neolithic...