Word: matic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...
...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
...Prospective Subscriber Elkins state what she would consider proof of Colonel Lawrence's spyhood. Presumably she does not expect TIME to wring from the British Government the admission that the Empire employs a spy or spies. The Government of Afghanistan has made official, diplo matic protest against Colonel Lawrence's spying. The exploits which Lawrence describes in his best-seller Revolt in the Desert brand him as a spy ten times over, if one accepts the definition of a spy set forth in Article XXIX of the Hague Convention...
Editor Oil-O-Matic News Williams O.I-O-Matic Heating Corp., Bloomington...
That disconsolate individual whom you have just passed on the street was probably a playwright. His day has passed. The public will no more of him. The play not only is no longer the thing. It is no longer anything at all. In this best of all possible dr?.matic seasons the actor has taken the bit in his teeth and bolted, with the play rattling and banging along behind...