Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, two kittens gambolled around a gas jet, turned it on. Mrs. Mary Kane, 67, waitress, asleep in the next room, was asphyxiated. So were the kittens. Emergency pulmotormen revived the kittens, could not revive Mrs. Kane...
...unanimous. For also in the city was Mme. Sayba Garzouzi, Egypt's only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt ,† she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi said last week she said in perfect English. But because...
Five years Engineer Woolson and his research staff at the Packard plant have labored designing the motor. They had, first, the diesel principle to go on, i.e., that air can be heated by compression until hot enough to ignite a jet of fuel...
Christian white citizens of Seattle, who tut-tutted when their Miss Nancy Ann Miller mated with an Indian potentate (TIME, March 12), were not a little stirred last week when she gave birth to a girl-child of swarthy skin, jet black hair and beady brown eyes. Since the event was somewhat premature, the babe's father, Sir Tokuji Rao Holkar, deposed Maharaja of Indore, was suddenly obliged to break off playing baccarat at Cannes, French Riviera, whence he rushed to his wife's bedside at St. Germain, near Paris, arriving just in time. Though naturally disappointed that...
...bring his Bird in Flight into the U. S. (TIME, March 7, 1927). Works of art are duty free. But Sculptor Brancusi's bird had neither head, feet nor feathers. It was four and a half feet of bronze which swooped up from its base like a slender jet of flame. Customs Inspector Kracke said it was not art; merely "a manufacture of metal . . . held dutiable at 40% ad valorem." The press bantered, jibed. Indignant modernists wrote abstruse, defensive paragraphs. Sculptor Brancusi complained to the Customs Court...