Word: toye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artist, Siqueiros has the distinction of having discovered the modern paint gun as an artistic implement. In 1923, when Pontiac, Mich, produced the first automobile (an Oakland) ever finished by being sprayed with quick-drying lacquer, the spray gun took its place among the garage man's favorite toys. Always alert to industry, Artist Siqueiros considered it more than a toy, urged its use for murals. Neither Siqueiros himself nor other muralists have actually done much with it. But last week in Manhattan two trigger men appeared with demonstrations of what a spray...
...adult should use specific words. For example, twice as many children wound a swimming toy correctly when a teacher said "Wind it backwards" as when she said "Wind it this...
...Words that originally produce results have a lasting effect. Children specifically instructed to wind a toy "backward," for example, were more likely to do it correctly without instructions a week later. To this rule there was, however, a significant exception. Although a simple command had a more potent immediate effect than a verbose explanation, the effect of the explanation was more lasting. Thus the children who were confused by a teacher's discourse on the glass animals the first time, a week later were more likely to play with the animals and put them away voluntarily...
...York World-Telegram appeared the following advertisement: "Washington's birthday is more than toy hatchets and silver dollar tossing. . . . We can hang our flags in a proud land, rich and free. We should hang out a large flag on every proper occasion. A large flag to fit a large country. America is an expansive country. Wanamaker's is an expansive store. Our flags are inexpansive...
When he was six, towheaded Philo Taylor Farnsworth became so delighted with a toy dynamo that he solemnly declared he hoped he had been born an inventor. By 1921, when he was 15, Philo had conceived a basic principle of television-electronic scansion of an image...