Word: mechanician
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...unloving, smelly and parasitical. Cole assails the vaunted feline IQ, quoting a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher, no mechanician, no student of human affairs; merely . . . cherished for her air of aloofness and that aura of mystery which surrounds her." About the only good thing Cole has to say about the creature is culled from the continental reporter Labouchere, who noted that cats became a gourmet item during...
...Vladivostok last week the senior mechanician of the Soviet freighter Terett and his assistant were sentenced to death for criminal negligence. They had wrecked the Terett, not once, but four times...
...unduly modest misstatement. Albert Brisbane's writings were prosy, meatless, platitudinous. Their most apparent influence on Arthur Brisbane's style is in the persistent use of capital letters. Sample: "The great Agriculturist . . . whose genius causes the earth to bloom more luxuriantly . . . and the great Mechanician . . . must be honored as highly as the scheming Politician or the intriguing Statesman, whose intrigues fill the World with conflict and discord." Son Arthur Brisbane carries capitals further. Samples of last week: "It pays to THINK AND WORK. NEITHER, BY ITSELF, WILL CARRY YOU FAR. . . ." "No nation could exist HALF STARVED AND HALF...
Chief Laboratory Assistant Frederick Ott is the sturdy mechanician who for 43 years has supervised experiments on Inventor Edison's ideas. The man who has for 19 years tried to keep the ideas from public garbling is a precise, British-born lawyer named William Henry Meadowcroft, 76. Last week Secretary Meadowcroft was exasperated by reports that he had predicted 16? per lb.: the present low price of real rubber, as the price of golden-rod rubber.† Neither Inventor Edison nor anyone in his organization could guess yet at manufacturing costs or how many acres of goldenrod would produce...
From Paris to Manhattan by air is a feat that has stimulated and perturbed Frenchmen since the days of lost Heroes Nungesser and Coli. Last week Lieut. Paulin Paris, Mechanician Marat, Radioman Cadou set out to accomplish it in a hydroplane. They reached the island of Fayal in the Azores safely. Then they refuelled, prepared to hop to Bermuda, to Manhattan...