Word: tinfoil
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...Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...
Store directors did themselves proud too with a splurge of fancy displays. Windows and shelves were decked with Georgian grapefruit, imported bananas, chocolates wrapped in tinfoil, gaily-colored candy in ribbon-bound boxes. One big window held nothing but a pyramid of Libby's canned pineapple. But the crowds made mostly for the bread counters...
Then there is the little opus which was germinated by the inspiration of Howie Brundage, Co 3 financier. Howie is one of those rare animals who saves tinfoil, string and time. He saves his money, also. The opus...
America pleased to enter World War I soon after the start of the first ROTC, and the College shifted en masse into a training camp--everyone but a few pitied physical and under-age ineligibles was in ranks. The ROTC was popular then. But through the tinfoil twenties and bitter thirties it took fortitude and the promise of a uniform and polo to make men endure the westernunioning taunts of friends. When war came there was an increase in applications. And in the emergency the Harvard ROTC has trained, often by accelerated programs, a large number of men, many...
Every floor had its own tinfoil collection depot-we've had our own rubber and scrap metal reclamation day-almost a hundred of us have graduated from the First Aid classes we held five nights a week in our reception room-and the Treasury Department gave us its Certificate of Merit for the number of employees who signed up to buy bonds regularly in our own War Bond Drive...