Word: lamped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...besides postcards. Among the earliest were lumps of sugar soaked in absinthe which his mother tossed him when he was ten to shut him up. By the age of 15 he was drawing steady inspiration from gin and whiskey bottles. By the '305 he had moved on to lamp fuel, mentholated alcohol, petroleum, benzine, eau de cologne, ether, with opium and hashish on the side. In 1936 London's great Tate Gallery publicly and prematurely proclaimed him dead of drink. Utriilo was not dead and he was no longer drunk; he was still prodding his imagination (by praying...
...analogy of electric current. The wattage, or power, is the product of volts and amperes. If the electromotive force or pressure is a million volts but the quantity of current is only one-millionth of an ampere, the power is just one watt, not enough to light a household lamp...
...made motion pictures of pigeons, humming birds and even houseflies in flight; of lamp bulbs breaking under hammer blows; of craters formed on a liquid surface by a falling drop of milk; of soap bubbles breaking; of falling cats twisting in mid-air to land on their feet...
...build farmers' cooperative power systems. REA organizes "energizing" celebrations with bands, games, electrical displays and fireworks on the day current is turned on for a new project. Most frequent stunt: selection of a pretty local miss as "Polly Power," to preside over the burial of a kerosene lamp...
...Bennett (Physical Land Use) and Chemist Henry G. Knight (Research & Technology). Closer than any of these to the Secretary is lean, loyal, Lincolnesque Under Secretary Milburn Lincoln Wilson, a fellow alumnus of Iowa State College whose father used to read him Wallace's Farmer by kerosene lamp, with special emphasis on Uncle Henry's Sabbath School lessons...