Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metal tube cordially, spoke of the first "radical change" since Lee de Forest bobbed up with the three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...
...miles apart, were leading parallel columns of cruisers in battle practice off the coast of Spain. At 11:35 a. m. Admiral Bailey, as Commander of the Squadron, ordered from his flagship, the Hood, what the court martial referred to as an "inclination exercise." The ships were to swing together to form a single line of battle, and from the Hood's chartroom Admiral Bailey himself set the course for both ships: 254 degrees for the Hood, 192 degrees for the Renown. Apparently he thought that without further orders the Hood would swing into the "projected course...
Cited was an instance in which one of His Majesty's subjects was arrested last year "for using the wrong swing in a public park," sentenced to pay a fine, jailed when he proved penniless. In 1932, the latest year for which Sir John could cite statistics, one-half of all persons jailed in England and Wales were incarcerated for nonpayment...
Last week the Navy's sole surviving dirigible was walked out of her Lakehurst hangar, moored securely to her mobile mast.* Her tail was buckled to a flatcar mounted on a huge circular track, left there to swing with the wind. Decommissioned nearly three years ago, partly dismantled and condemned as unfit for further avigation, the 11-year-old Los Angeles had bein reconditioned not to fly but to determine how she might weather a year's uninterrupted exposure to the elements...
While Robertson was superior at long range, the stockier Yale boxer was a past master of infighting. After trading blows evenly for three rounds, they were both tottering so that it seemed an even gamble which one would go down, and swing the victory to one side or the other...