Word: rods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believers in thrashing of the young used to be the Turks. But under the Turkish Republic thrashing of servants by masters, wives by husbands, children by fathers, is no longer condoned. Mustafa Kemal Pasha, anxious to make his country as Western as possible, has abolished the schoolmaster's rod along with fezzes, women's veils and the complicated Turkish alphabet. Illegal in their implications now are the old Turkish sayings...
Spare the Child. W. E. Blatz of Toronto thought that "very few parents knew how to bring up children. . . . The rule of 'Spare the Rod & Spoil the Child' is the most diabolical ever introduced into child training. The reverse should be the case. Parents should be seen and not heard." Governesses, he observed, "were the worst things on earth...
...always has the industry enjoyed stability. When Benjamin Franklin advocated lightning rods in 1747 people thought the whole idea was stupid, sacrilegious. But finally there came a boom. The whole country became lightning-rod-minded. In 1885 a body of scientific men studied the Washington Monument, already hit a few times, and recommended conductors for it. Wide-awake salesmen made a racket of the craze, slapping useless pieces of metal on roofs. Gradually people became aware of the fact that lightning was striking even where the so-called rods were. The rods were thereupon denounced as expensive folly. About...
Most industries in such a situation would form an association, hire a good publicity man, set things right. But the lightning-rod-makers, while they published sales booklets filled with startling pictures of lightning and burnt houses, did not have to do this. In 1915 the National Board of Fire Underwriters set standards for equipment and ever since has urged the use of lightning-rods...
...great field still lies open. Lightning does an average property damage of $16,300,000 a year. It can strike anything, and venerable Boston Lightning Rod Co. gravely asserts: "No good reason is known why a place that has been struck once may not be struck again...