Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn oat chaff, cottonseed hulls, corncobs into money to buy Fords, phonographs. New Products. Professor Orland Russell Sweeney, of Iowa State College, called the Corn Belt a great sponge soaking up the energy of the sun. Nowhere else in the white man's world is there another such trap for solar power. This energy is stored in chemical compounds; not lost. True to the laws of physics it is merely changed, can be released again by chemical cunning. Meanwhile, the potential energy of hundreds of millions of tons of industrial raw materials is wasted. This waste material is full...
...that the flash of light which should have been his augury was, in point of fact, a photographic flare which his tamperings with the poor box had caused to be ignited at the precise instant in which an automatic camera caught the features of his startled face. The camera trap was the invention of a policeman, one James O'Donnell, who had already seen his device installed in several haunts but had never before had an opportunity of giving it a working test. Proud of its performance, Policeman O'Donnell recommended its installation in any surroundings where thieves...
Ships and planes, heading north, brought food, medicines, snow glasses, gum boots, guns. Unlike Eskimos, Italians cannot trap seals by hand, find it difficult to bag polar bears. Unconfirmed reports said the thiee Arctic pedestrians were safe aboard an ice breaker. Capt. Roald Amundsen, not on speaking terms ,,ith Pilgrim Nobile, forgot personal enmities to lead a rescue expedition...
...Mouse Trap. The bizarre opinion that valor is a mouse trap was quaintly justified by the circumstances which caused Chang Tso-lin to withdraw from Peking last week, without fighting any final pitched engagement or making a theatrical "last stand." Circumstances...
...jealous of the birds, though he has already learned to fly many times faster. Determined to learn their secret, Leonard W. Bonney, wealthy pioneer of the air, grown middle-aged since his first flight with Orville Wright in 1910, caught two seagulls in a steel trap padded with cloth at Mastic, L. I. For three years he studied them, scrutinizing every feather on their bodies...