Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invention of a new electric phonograph pick-up that is from 5 to 15 times lighter than the types now in use has been made by two men working in the Cruft Laboratory here. The inventors are Frank V. Hunt, assistant professor of Physics and Communicating Engineering, and J. A. Pierce...
...pick-up pressure on the record is only 0.176 ounces while that of the ordinary pick-up is from one to three ounces. It is an inductor dynamic type with a permanent sapphire needle on a single-loop, U-shaped inductor in a strong magnetic field...
Faced with the task of recording the exercises of the Tercentenary on a special long-lasting material for historical purposes, Hunt and Pierce discovered that a heavy pick-up would damage the sensitive acetate records...
Another disadvantage was in the extremely high frequencies of the records which a rigidly fixed needle would miss. In the new pick-up the needle is fixed in a rubbery substance allowing it to receive delicately modulated vibrations...
...This team has great strength on the attack. Indeed, I defy anybody to pick a more offensive aggregation." So wrote massive, loudly liberal Columnist Heywood Broun, old New York World sports reporter, in his syndicated column, picking his own 1937 All-America Stuffed-Shirt Eleven. Eliminating a left wing entirely, Leftist Broun put both Sinclair Lewis and Boake Carter at right guard, Dale ("How to Win Friends") Carnegie at quarterback, New York's bumbling Senator Royal Samuel Copeland at fullback. "Because he has a tendency to block the attack of his own side," Mr. Broun, against the advice...