Word: lockeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shooting is over. Freshmen will not troop past the polls today as the by-laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are amazing. Pre-election reasoning indicated otherwise: pointed to the belief that, in one swift coup, the Council would gain positive endorsement of its stand for elections and would silence the gnawing criticism which has sporadically arisen in the last few years...
Culbert Levy Olson, California's first Democratic Governor in 40 years, thrust a $35,000 jeweled key into the lock of a gilded miniature Golden Gate bridge one morning last week and, with a symbolic push, proudly opened 1939's first world's fair, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. Few minutes later, to the jealous joy of Florida, Franklin Roosevelt radioed his national benediction from Key West (see p. 13). Other orators of State and church completed the inaugural, but the sublimest signal of all had been furnished the night prior...
...Sanitation of the ship will be accomplished through the medium of an air-lock in which refuse will be deposited. Upon removing the outer cover the air remaining in the lock will drive the refuse away from the ship...
Soon learning there was no spot cash up that alley, the young inventor turned to more practical pursuits. To earn money for his first pair of long pants, he invented a thief-proof auto lock which netted him $25. At 19 he was working in a railroad yard. Then he landed a job in the fund-raising office of George Everson, a San Franciscan with brains and friends...
...late. When the thief is still in sight, it is well to apprehend him first and worry latter about providing a better lock for the barn door. Your editorial, it would seem, recommends the reverse procedure. Avram Goldstein...