Word: locked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lock manufacturer has buffing machines (for the final polishing operation) which need no human help except for starting & stopping...
...they could have been accused of dodging all the honest implications of their theme in order to effect a sentimental happy ending. As a period piece, its unlikely personnel, its carefully sustained atmosphere and even its climax, reached when the hero's mother shows the village elders a lock of his baby hair, are in order. Lacking the tidal-wave sentimentality which made Little Women such an astounding hit a year ago (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933), The Little Minister should nonetheless seem pleasant to the public, admirable to the Legion of Decency and a masterpiece to Katharine Hepburn...
...Boston one day last week officials of Provident Institution for Savings watched the 30-ton door of their bank vault ponderously close and lock. A motor compressor forced air into the vault through a ventilator until a pressure-gauge climbed to 4 Ib. per square inch over atmospheric pressure. At that level the gauge stood still nearly an hour after the air input had stopped. A valve was then opened and the compressed air wheezed...
...kind that anyone knew of, the test showed the vault airtight, hence watertight. With safety-deposit boxes only six inches from the floor, the bank's officials deemed the possibility of a flooded basement real enough to be guarded against. The door was built by York Safe & Lock Co., machined by hand to such precision that a scrap of tissue paper in the frame prevents it from closing...
...people seem to have married on the "Grand Canawl," the usual relationship being that of captain & cook. Molly is cooking for Jotham Klore, a profane, hard-drinking bully boy who seldom passes a lock without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...