Word: poling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furnished house in a quiet section. His young daughters are "in society," which he shuns. He plays no golf, no cards, no craps. He sings "darkey songs" accompanying himself on the piano. In South Carolina he is a potent fisherman, not with rod and reel but with a bamboo pole and a piece of old string with which, from the swamp-bordered streams of his State, he pulls out many a "red breast." Only an old Negro, son of his father's slave, accompanies him, knows his bait. He is the Senate's most active tobacco chewer...
...even been in Europe," he said. "I've never played at all, never had a chance to do anything but work." He was asked about a reported remark to the effect that if he had a son he would keep him out of the market with a ten-foot pole and another observation that most brokers were just "broke." He said that he meant the grain, not the stock market. In the grain market all the cards were against you. It was just a selling market. Railroads, he observed, were coming into their...
...Mayor was merely testing a new device calculated to make life more difficult for false alarmists, who, in New York City alone, call for firemen 8,000 times a year, at $300 a call. When Mayor Walker turned the handle a siren screeched at passersby, a camera on the pole over-head snapped his picture several times for the Rogues Gallery. Photographers pleaded with him to do it again...
...half years given $1,200,000 to various aeronautical educational institutions for research and instruction. California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology and Leland Stanford, Michigan and Washington Universities all got their wind tunnels from the Fund. After Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the North Pole (1926) the Fund sent his plane around the U. S. to focus attention on the development of aircraft and the need for municipal airports. The Fund sent Col. Lindbergh and his plane to at least one city in each of the 48 States to increase popular interest in aviation. When the French Flyers Nungesser & Coli...
...Rentschler constructed a photo-electric cell with one pole made of uranium. Uranium is sensitive only to the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum. They charge it electrically. Hence when the Rentschler uranium bulb is exposed to an ultraviolet ray source an electric charge is created in proportion to the ray's intensity. This charge is accumulated in a condenser until a given potential is set up. Then the condenser discharges and, in the Rentschler meter, makes an argon tube give out a bluish flash and simultaneously causes a pencil to mark the occurrence on a chart. The time between...