Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musical comedy stage, as anyone will agree who has heard the exquisite discords emanating from the "magnavox",--the lady in Wellesley Hills trying to sing, the trio in Newark on the piano and two other instruments (to all intents and purposes a pair of steam calliopes), and the gentleman in Wilmington who wishes to talk about the natural development of cucumbers. The general effect is something between water disappearing from the kitchen sink, a street car sour-milking round a curve, and a boiler-factory on the rampage...
...Picked up" the sound of a of sub off Land's End, successfully followed her and dropped a barrage of depth charges that seriously damaged her. By means of the listening devices they heard her unfortunate crew endeavoring to make repairs. Occasionally she would get her engines going, steam along a short distance, then stop, when continued hammering indicated further efforts at repairs. Additional depth charges were dropped, resulting in further damage to the doomed sub, which was now resting on the bottom and able to drag herself along only a few yards at a time. The listeners could follow...
These statements are very interesting; we should like to believe them, but such things have been heard before. Tesla once claimed he had invented a steam turbine one foot square that would develop one hundred and fifty horse power. An Italian gentleman residing in Boston announced that he had invented a perpetual motion machine, but a committee of government physicists showed him his error...
With the coming of the steam railroad, the population of the city soon increased and congestion occurred within the three to four mile limit. As soon as this happened the omnibus first, and then the horse-car was evolved to supply the need for cheap horse transit...
...part of the romantic atmosphere that attached itself to the professional sailor.--in this country at least. The Briton however, must perforce be a mariner. The nation lives by commerce, and hence the sea is a popular calling. It has been left to an Englishman to show that in steam ships there is a fascination that equals that of the earlier sailing vessels...