Word: socket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London last week, Britain's Sco-phony, Ltd. exhibited a new, lightweight (35 lbs.), antennaless TV receiver which can be moved from room to room and plugged into an electric socket. The set has a 7½-by-6-in. screen and retails for ?55 ($220). For an antenna the set uses the electric wiring system of the house. A cylindrical condenser is attached to the power cord to reduce interference. A booster inside the set steps up the sound and TV signals to the necessary strength. An aerial can be attached in areas of high interference...
...fingers (no typewriter needed). Raymond Loewy Associates drafted a more efficient streetcar rider. He had a head with a hook for straphanging, and a spiked nose to hold newspapers. Another idea: an efficient carpenter with a ripsaw nose, who merely plugged his head in to the nearest light socket, so he couldn't forget his tools...
...boil with the force of faith!" and "Make the small sparrow fight the big hawk!" He would stalk into meetings wearing his "political uniform"-native dress with a black astrakhan cap-and whip the Moslems into a frenzy. Sometimes, in his fury, his monocle would pop out of its socket. After meetings, he would go home, change to Western clothes and be again the suave Western lawyer...
...painted himself as a shriveled, sightless old man, ready for death to snatch him (see cut). In a corner of the canvas, like a bit of an old snapshot, is a tiny picture of Poleo as he really looks. Beneath that hangs one sick eye, freshly torn from its socket, staring, in dumb fascination, from a ruined wall...
...first hearing aid, an instrument that plugged into a light socket, was all right for desk workers, but no good for anyone moving about. His second, a two-unit set ($40), made him, he claims, the world's biggest producer of hearing aids. But he lost money on them...