Word: pick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With characteristic independence, President Hoover will pick Dr. Work's successor. Possibilities: Secretary of War James William Good; Claudius Hart Huston of Tennessee; National Committee Vice-chairman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon; National Committee Secretary Franklin William Fort of New Jersey; National Committee General Counsel James Francis Burke of Pennsylvania...
...press these days like wintry morning griddle cakes from the Georgian iron. But, unlike the dependable breakfast staple, detective stories are of no uniform quality. Every so often there is a good one. It is probably the lure of discovery that keeps the habitual reader going. One can always pick up the newest offering with trembling excitement. However, in the case of Reginald Wright Kauffman's most recent temptation there is no cause for excitement. "Beg Pardon, Sir!" is not an intrusion upon the low average of its contemporaries...
...passes over the catapult the hook engages the contraption's rope (held horizontally by the vertical arms) and pulls. That pull releases the spring, which instantly projects the container from the trough at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer invented...
...Leviathan on its next westward crossing of the Atlantic will experiment with an analogous device to pick up and despatch mail to shore. On a new platform above the poop deck a sack of mail will be laid. A plane with a steel ball hanging by a rope will pass over the ship, dragging the ball across the platform. The ball will engage the sack, which the plane will draw into its fuselage, as she flies to land...
...assistants continued to pick delicately with their ice-picks and scrape with their soupspoons, uncovering halberds, swords, knives, thumbscrews, eye-gougers, nostril tearers, tongs for tearing out tongues, racks, pulleys, finger choppers...