Word: loft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institute on the strength of his youthful preoccupation with electrical and mechanical gadgets. After graduation he worked for a little New Hampshire tool company. In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems. His first plant was in a loft where the floor cracks were so wide that he never needed a dustpan...
Earlier in the afternoon Gilder downed Hunter Loft of Pennsylvania in a semi-final match 15-10, 15-9, 15-13, Glidden earing for LeRoy Lewis of the same college...
...summary: In singles; Glidden defeated Ingraham 15-9, 13-15, 15-3, 15-6. In the team competition; Sargent (H) defeated McMullen 14-8, 15-8, 15-13, 17-15, 18-13; Walsh defeated Donald E. Jackson '37, 13-15, 15-12, 15-6, 15-10; Loft defeated Richard M. Dorson '37, 15-6, 11-6, 15-12, 13-17; Coffin defeated John I. Clark '36, 14-12, 15-16, 15-14; Stack defeated James J. Timehera...
...like "Hai-hai!" and "O-i!" and "Ma-a!" So did everybody else in Takiya. They understood each other perfectly. They wanted no truck with newfangled gadgets like alarm clocks that went ji-ji-ji-ji. What they really liked was the noise of the silkworms feeding in the loft, the village bell calling to some occasion of innocent merriment...
Today the loft on the Journal's roof houses 76 cooing Hearstlings. The birds can fly 50 m.p.h. with a 2-oz. payload, are used within a 50-mi. radius. Film negatives and copy written on onionskin paper are placed in aluminum capsules, fastened to the birds' backs with elastic. The Journal used 20 pigeons on the Crempa story, finds them useful in covering ship-news, trials, sports, outlying murders. From ships at Quarantine, 14 miles away, the Journal gets pictures of incoming celebrities in twelve minutes. Rival papers must wait two hours until the ship docks...