Word: use
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking them to cut a hole in the side of the submarine, and give the men diving suits in which to rise to the surface. Little did they know that at least three hours is required to put a man in a diving suit and instruct him in the use of it. By this time enough water would have poured through the hole to fill the entire ship. Another suggestion was to have the men shoot themselves out of the torpedo tubes. One doesn't shoot himself out a tube, he merely crawls to the end, opens the door...
...syncopation, and the Vagabond, not given to such things, realized almost with a start, that he was sitting out a dance with a veritable "wow", a "knock-out", a "hot mama". (Note the quotation marks, which show that the Vagabond does not wholly approve of the vulgar phrasing, used here only for emphasis. The gist of what he means to convey, and the terms the Vagabond himself would use, being a gentleman of the old school, would be belle, or shall we say charmer...
They objected to a teacher who would use the word that Principal Tate had used in front of their children. When Mr. Colson asked one of the parents what "evolution" meant, the parent said: "I do not know and I do not want to know but I do know that I do not want my children to know anything about it, either." The result of this to-do was a request that Mr. Tate, anti-evolutionist and Deacon of the Baptist Church, was asked to resign as Principal of the Farragut Grammar School...
...quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into the 19th Century. Their use remains as an affectation...
...use all these pens, from marsh grass to steel, must be dipped repeatedly into ink reservoirs. How well it would be, men early reflected, to have an ink reservoir attached to the pen. Many were the experiments during the past 100 years to do so; many the failures. About 50 years ago, Lewis E. Waterman succeeded. The hard-rubber barrels of his early pens were made in two sections screwed together. Mr. Waterman furnished medicine droppers with those early pens...