Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventions," which fall somewhere between Rube Goldbergian complexity and a shaggy dog story. (Example: a slot machine "which blows off steam, lights up, whistles, makes five minutes of loud silence when you put a dime in it, eventually returns your coin-it's for giving yourself a tip in a self-service restaurant...
...dissipations and steer him into a commercial career, but succeeded only in drawing him from respectability into the Latin Quarter. He was soon living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...
...delegates had little chance to blow off steam until Phil Murray's nomination for re-election to his eighth term as president. They voted him in by acclamation and gave him 20 minutes' worth of howling, snake-dancing and table-thumping. Then Murray did some thumping of his own for price controls and smacked the Government for being "definitely derelict" in its duties. Later he was asked if he meant to include Harry Truman in his criticism. He did. Said Murray: "In this country we can criticize whom we choose, when we choose...
Some housewives, in an extremely irritable mood about food anyhow, used the plan as an excuse to blow off steam. Millions cried: "I haven't money enough to buy meat or poultry every day anyhow, so what difference does it make...
Last year's top marksman, Lou Gerstley '45, reports that when, in the midst of firing, a steam valve from the pumping equipment located nearby blows, the result of the aim is often pretty bad. More fortunate M.I.T. can boast of a modern indoor firing range, complete with soundproofing and overhead target carriers...