Word: toyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Others, as far back as Archimedes, had built vertical hoists of one kind or another, but Otis was the first to build one with an automatic safety catch to keep it from falling. It was a kind of ratchet, like the gadget that prevents the spring on a mechanical toy from unwinding...
...April 1889 ... a famous poet .,. recited How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix into a toy designed to preserve the spoken word upon a wax-covered cylinder. All went well until the poet came to the words, "Speed! echoed the . . ." Then he hesitated, and said: "I forget it." Upon being prompted, however, he went on: "Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest." Again the poet paused, and presently said: "I am exceedingly sorry that I cannot remember my own verses, but one thing I shall remember all my life is the astonishing sensation produced upon...
High Winds. A toy storm was pleasant, for a change. All week Robert Schuman had been grappling with man-sized tempests. He badly needed a magic button to press-but nowhere in the jittery, confused National Assembly was there the solid majority which could provide...
...When I get that guy," she continued, "the first thing I want to do is take a trip to Mexico. He'll have to buy me a toy fox terrier, one that weighs less than two pounds. I love the things." She fingered the borrowed pearls on her chic black dress, tugged at the borrowed fur coat she was wearing...
...public first saw electronic television at the New York World's Fair in 1939. (Britain's BBC, using a lot of U.S. equipment, had a three-year head start.) Before the U.S. could take a good look, the war interfered; the toy had to be put back in the closet for five years. When it was examined again, it had two heads: one (a CBS product) was gaudy with all the colors of the spectrum; the other (by RCA) was black & white. Since the industry could not go off in both directions, and still take the public along...