Word: screws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty-four hours later an Uruguayan "apology" was delivered at Havana; whereupon at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, the Cuban Minister, whose trunks had been packed, ordered them unpacked again. Many a Cuban plebeian, unconscious that the national honor had been saved, learned with ogreish interest of how an iron screw was slowly turned in the Santiago prison last week. The screw tightened a steel collar fitted with an iron spike and encircling the neck of Quesado Castillo, a Negro who had murdered his wife and daughter. At 6:03 a. m. the garrote began to contract...
...Passed a bill continuing the life of the National Screw Thread Commission. (Bill went to the Senate...
...House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures last week had its day on the legislative calendar and presented one bill, a bill to continue the life of the National Screw Thread Commission. But it did not report the Britten metric standards bill, although hearings on the bill were begun Feb. 1. Congressman Fred Albert Britten is from Chicago. He is prominent in the House on naval affairs and it was he who was given credit for bringing the next Army-Navy foot ball game to his city. Incidentally his business is building construction, and that accounts for his introducing...
...Name. The Colorado is the third of her name. The first Colorado was a 3,400-ton steam screw frigate, named after the Colorado River. During the Civil War she took part in the blockade first of the Gulf and later the Atlantic Coast, and served as flagship of the first division of the North Atlantic Squadron. She was sold in 1886. The second Colorado was an armored cruiser of 13,680 tons, launched in 1903. She served with the Atlantic Fleet, and later became flagship of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. She had been named after tne State of Colorado...
...their incapacity is usually apparent; they deceive no one. Infinitely more dangerous, in a negative way, is the host of perfectly good-hearted people who, seemingly engaged in occupations requiring intelligence, settle down to methods of working, and more important, habits of thinking no less mechanical than turning a screw every ten seconds. Clerks, at first fresh and alert, who allow their jobs to become mere routine with no spark of inquiry enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors...