Word: oven
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charles G. Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution (TIME, May 5) made a solar cooker at Mt. Vernon, Calif., which so concentrated the rays of the sun that the temperature of the oven was 175° Centigrade. Sad to say, the oil circulating system sprang a leak, soaked the insulation with oil, and the heat set fire to and destroyed the machine...
...more inclined to lay, and we shall have eggs." Radicals, such as Senator La Follette, favor drastic cuts in freight rates, saying: " The geese are suffering from a plethora. A little dieting will restore their egg-laying qualities." Railroad Labor is for outright cooking of the geese in the oven of Government ownership. The heads of the railways rise to hiss at all of these. " Out upon you," they cry, " the geese are just recovering their robust physique. Cook 'them, starve them, pen them up and they will never lay again! Yours for golden eggs." This last was the attitude...
...privilege of youth to be silly in its ardor, amusing in its lack of a sense of humor. It is the duty of youth to aspire mightily, oven at the risk of appearing ridiculous to those who admit themselves to be wise and sane. But it has no right to don the garments of old men and sit by the fireside smiling in a supercilious, sophisticated manner at the "other buffoons...
...Naval Affairs. He said, some-what abruptly, that the fleet must be united, drilled and organized for immediate action; that we must have a "three-plane navy" (submarines and aircraft, as well as an adequate number of surface vessels); that the American fleet was unorganized and unprepared for war, oven as a one-plant flotilla. "I want the fleet made ready for war quick," was one of the admiral's remarks...