Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thing Nikola Tesla invented was a hook for catching frogs. That was not long after he learned to talk, in the Croatian hamlet of Smiljan where he was born. He studied physics and mathematics at two universities, got into telegraph engineering, went to Budapest, to Paris, to the U. S. in 1884 to work for Thomas Edison. Soon he had a research laboratory of his own. Four years later he patented the induction motor, first effective utilization of alternating current. He discovered the rotary magnetic field principle used today in the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls. He invented dynamos...
Down to the Hook of Holland went good Queen Wilhelmina and had a good cry with Crown Princess Juliana who rushed home from England last week at news of the death by heart failure of her father, Dutch Prince Consort Henry (TIME, July 9). The two women drove at once to The Hague and sat an hour with the corpse. In this sad hour Dutch proletarians might have buried their quarrel with Her Majesty's Government over recent dole payment cuts. Instead they chose to erupt at Amsterdam in savage riots which spread through 17 districts and forced...
...feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When it is told in court, my judgment may be discredited, but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." The cutter bore the Insulls to Fort Hancock on the tip of Sandy Hook. They were motored under guard to Princeton Junction, N. J. and by 10 a. m. were aboard a westbound Pennsylvania train. Next day in Chicago, after being fingerprinted and suffering a slight heart attack, the Elder Insull was arraigned in Federal Court. Judge John P. Barnes promptly announced that bail...
...David Reed from steelmaking Pittsburgh, Senator James Couzens from motor-making Michigan, Representative Allen Treadway from the bucolic Berkshires of Massachusetts, Representative Isaac Bacharach from sporty Atlantic City, Representative Sam Hill from the tall timbers of northern Washington, Representative Tom Cullen from the sidewalks of Brooklyn's Red Hook district, Senator Walter George from cotton-picking Georgia, Senator William King from silver-mining Utah and, most important of all. the two chiefs of the conference-for the Senate, a shrewd lawyer from Gulfport, Miss, named Pat Harrison and for the House a leathery old farmer from the hills...
...been a nuisance, individual records had been kept in his case which agreed with the company's routine records. Engineers testified that Dr. Smahl's little padlock was insignificant; even with a locked dial the instrument could have been used by removing the receiver and jiggling the hook. A jury of six men, after an hour's deliberation, decided the historic case for Dr. Smahl, awarding him a verdict of $5.40 against the telephone company...