Word: steams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...model railroads with such elaborate attention to detail and conformity to scale that they feel entitled to resent the word "toys." This was the third annual convention of the National Model Railroad Association, and its members discussed such things as the best ways of ballasting track and handling steam boilers with as much warmth as the operating vice president of the Southern would discuss parallel maintenance problems with the superintendent of his Atlanta division...
Last week bacteriologists and chemists of the Army Medical School in Washington busily prepared this new preventive. To avoid adulteration they worked in glass cages, sterilized each morning by live steam and ventilated all day by sterile, conditioned air. Before the men entered the cages, which contained no germs except those in test tubes, flasks and 5-gal. demijohns, they changed every stitch of clothing...
...sound of hissing steam...
...Chicago, Henry Cosgrove, WPA worker, parked his steam roller at the curb while he stepped into a tavern. When he stepped out 20 minutes later, someone had stolen his steam roller...
Pennsylvania's Guffey was not the only Senator who had been taken aback. Sena tor Lewis and others had speeches pre pared. But Vice President Garner, well aware that the Bill was sure to pass eventually, had timed the start of his steam roller accurately and gauged his colleagues' reaction to perfection. Prevailing mood of the Senate suddenly became one of over whelming relief, and laughter almost drowned out the angry voice of Senator Guffey still demanding to be recorded as against the Bill. With supreme assurance the Vice President dismissed the demand by shouting back: "The Senator...