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...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...
...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...
...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...
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...
Selling even better than lead soldiers in German toy shops last week was a Nazified parchesi called Juden Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews...