Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never has Congress, and never will Congress, legalize Francis Scott Key's ballad, which voices "bombs bursting in air," "blood," "the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave," "foul footsteps' pollution," and refers to our Anglo-Saxon brother, Britain, as "the foe's haughty host...
Utmost secrecy always shrouds the structural details of new munitions of war. This one, announced last week by its inventor, Dr. Edwin R. Scott, is called the "death stroke" or "canned lightning." The Navy Department, which has been in touch with Dr. Scott's researches, hinted that the ultraviolet ray was involved, but Dr. Scott stated specifically: "There is no ray or beam about...
...Scott promised other and more spectacular performances of the "stroke." He sought an antiquated battleship upon which to demonstrate. In Washington, officials had no definite plans for supplying the battleship but followed the inventor's work closely, deeply interested...
...well they might. A native of Detroit, Dr. Scott was for nine years a student and protegé of no less a personage than the late Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, wizened wizard of the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y., in whose laboratory more than once there was manufactured a miniature thunderstorm with artificial lightning...
...board the tug Imbricaria in the Pacific, the Chief Engineer, one James Scott, mangled his finger in a flywheel so that white bone grinned through the flesh. Amputation was necessary. The tug's captain downed a pony of whisky, hammered off Air. Scott's finger with a mallet and cold chisel...