Word: plug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technological front, "teevee" was also busy. Last week there was a spate of new developments. Arcturus Radio & Television Corp. was readying sets that need no aerials at all (price: around $400 to $1,400). Electronic Laboratories, Inc. began marketing a plug-in gadget ($80 for table models; $120 for consoles) to make sets work on direct current, thereby adding 300,000 potential customers in Manhattan alone...
Once more the American Veterans Committee has stepped forward to plug a leaky hole in the University's facade. In the past, AVC committees have scraped up housing for married veterans, and found College rooms for hard-pressed commuters who had to rise at dawn to make a 10 o'clock class. Now the problem is the substantial rent increase for next term, announced by the University on February 15. AVC declares that it is ready to assist students who find that this new expense will plow too heavily into their budgets. A special AVC committee, which is already investigating...
Allen Jenkins, amiable cinema plug-ugly, was charged by Los Angeles police with drunken driving. His calico cat, Smiley, was with him in the car. "Smiley was driving," declared Jenkins. "I was just along for the ride...
Muffed. In near-zero Newark, the W.A.A. advertised 224 electrically heated muffs. But prospective buyers were chilled by a full description. It said that an airplane was needed to make use of the muffs, which plug into its electrical (24 volts) system...
...There is no priority set-up" on filling the House vacancies, Dean Watson said yesterday. Returnees who resided in Houses before their absences, upper-classmen who spent the fall term in the Yard, Claverly and Dudley, and some commuters will plug the 173 gaps in the seven Houses...