Word: ironing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...light-rays is enough to stop or start it. The tube can be attached, not merely to a washing machine, but to any household utility. The shadow of a housewife's hand while she waves goodby to her husband in the morning, will start the dishwasher, the electric iron; turn off the toaster. More than that, predicted Inventor Zworykin, the rays of the rising sun falling on a single Zworykin tube will shut the bedroom windows, start the coffee percolator, light the furnace, turn on the water in the bathtub, let out the dog, while the household snores abed...
...also a chemist. He has been doing research work at the University in mining and metallurgy. He is 32-year-old Harry McClane. Last week he announced the discovery of an alloy. He claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured to sell at about a dollar a pound. He calls...
...several days minesweepers searched vainly for the sunken vessel, plowed futilely back and forth through choppy rising seas. The Admiralty sent out divers and ships equipped with a recently and secretly developed instrument for magnetically detecting sunken masses of iron. The sea bottom was explored by every possible means. Then a startling announcement was made. The trouble it seemed lay not in locating sunken ships but in distinguishing the M-l from the many vessels sunk in that vicinity by the Germans! The sea bottom was described as "littered with ships," and despatches announced that the Admiralty had practically abandoned...
...Under the iron rule of the proletarian dictatorship freedom still exists in Russia. Right here in Moscow, despite Red guards and secret police, freedom runs rampant, wild as wolves and as savage-a freedom anarchistic-free to rob, free to fight, free to kill, free (as needs often must) to starve...
...less physical atmosphere of Harvard Square and its neighborhood has changed little in the past three or four year. Blind Dan still sells his papers near the subway station; Herr Engel continues to bestride the Square; Eddie Morris is still the acrobatic, iron-voiced announcer at sporting events; Dennis Enright has not changed from the brown color which has always fentured his attire; and Mike continues to predict victories over Crimson fees