Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not be present to share its holiday rewards. When other U. S. citizens were turning homeward for the year's greatest family celebration, Jack was converting heathen on Luzon, Tom was selling Standard Oil up the Yangtze, Ike was with National City Bank at Bombay, Pete was peddling vacuum cleaners out of Stockholm?all manifesting the U. S. Empire invisible...
...more violent critics claim that Author Cabell's embroidered style serves to conceal a vacuum. They will therefore not be much interested to learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit...
...same temperature chrome nickel steel's tensile strength is 30,000 lbs. per sq. in. Name given the new material is konel metal - from ko(balt) plus n(ick)el. Uses are for the filaments of radio vacuum tubes, turbine blades, motor pistons, valves & valve stems...
Boston censorship is like a vacuum cleaner; it beats everything; it finds the hidden dirt, and it makes considerable noise in doing so. Just recently Mayor Nichols has decided to ban the stage version of "Strange Interlude." Although the Watch and Ward Society is considering the suppression of the book, it may still be purchased in any local bookstore, so that he who runs fast enough may read...
Betty Jean Hoover, 4, learned last week that she would live in Washington. D. C. Not the daughter of President Hoover, or of his brother Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University, or of his White House Major Domo Ike Hoover or of Herbert W. (vacuum cleaners) Hoover, or of any one of a half dozen other important Hoovers (TIME: Dec. 24) who might seek to live there. Washington was only a word which brought smiles to the faces of Betty Jean's parents. Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Hoover and of chummy F. A. Greeley...