Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant will be the guest of honor at the Dunster Hose dinner, on Wednesday evening, October 25, at 6.30 o'clock. Members are requested to eat at this hour if possible. Guests will not be allowed inter-House eating privileges on Wednesday night...
...Beacon Street, Somerville yesterday afternoon emitted dense clouds of smoke which attracted scores of Harvard students to the scene of the blaze and so interested the Business School professors that several classes were summarily dismissed. Several of the students assisted the firemen in handling the many hose lines used by engines from four cities...
...Butler stands four to eight yards from the butt end of the log target. The beginner should first try to put the ax edge into the log. Later he can try driving spikes into the wood with the ax head. Adroit Captain Butler can cleave a piece of garden hose three out of five times at eight yards...
Cincinnati seems to be the seat of tuba experiments. Tubaman James Austin Houston who plays in radio station WLW has a bellows contraption called an aerophor attached to his instrument (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). He pumps it with his foot to shoot auxiliary air up through a hose into his mouth where, by a special facial technique, he shoots it back into the instrument. Tubaman Houston is puny. His aerophor is purely a lung-saving device. William Bell's invention is not for weak tubamen. It does the work of two tubas-a double bass and a baritone...
...either jail sentence or fine, not both. Last fortnight two St. Paul judges chose jail, ordered Mrs. Clark to begin her term one day last week. She did not appear. Three days later a farmer found the Clark family's bodies huddled in their tightly-shut automobile, a hose in from the exhaust pipe...