Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wisconsin newspaper men put out a book called La Follette's Winning of Wisconsin. The Philadelphia Public Ledger comments: " Either La Follette won Wisconsin or the state is in the wrong vest pocket...
...equally to the College: lectures, until printed, are the property of the professors, and their sale for the profit of another person is illegal. In the College, however, leniency has been shown; many courses are largely an accumulation of fact, which can be conveniently condensed into notes; and such vest-pocket editions, properly used, do little harm. But in courses which are intended to develop processes of thinking, second-hand notes can only give the trusting student an unwarranted feeling of security; and, naturally, the whole advantage of such a course is lost when the regular exercises are shirked...
...radio telephony and reading continue. At the same time that individual wireless receivers are spring up on all ears to catch the music and the speeches in the air, Rear Admiral Fiske has invented a Reading Machine which enables a man to carry "the Government of England" in his vest pocket. Strips of paper bearing microscopic characters are passed by the operator of the machine under a magnifying glass powerful enough to permit comfortable reading. So vast is the saving of paper effected by this process that 10,000 copies of an ordinary novel could be printed, it is claimed...
Last year, about this time, learned astronomers were hitching vest-pocket Kodaks to rockets, hoping thereby to obtain better pictures of the planet Mars. This season, the process is being reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion...
Officers of the University will enter at the north door; students will enter at the south door, unless accompanied by friends, in which case they will use the vest entrance...