Word: washing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nobel Prizeman Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute a young aviator designed an improved machine to wash blood corpuscles two years ago. described it in an article in Science, signed "C. A. Lindbergh." Of Charles Augustus Lindbergh last week proud Biologist Carrel proclaimed to friends in Paris: "He has become my best assistant in biology. The name he will leave in that science will be as illustrious as that in aviation...
...thorough soaking to the skin. Let it rain! Let it fall! Let it keep on falling! One inch, two inches, three inches, four inches, five inches in parts of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio! Let it break Drought's brazen back! People would again have water to wash their dusty faces. Cattle would again have water to drink. In some places rain would save the remainder of the corn crop. If it kept up, forage crops could be sown in ruined grain fields to help feed cattle during the winter. If it kept up still longer, it might replenish...
Males: Shirt (two pockets), Cotton wash trousers, Lower half of underwear, Socks without garters or no socks at all, Ventilated shoes, Pith helmet or light straw...
Baron Igor Ivan Sikorsky first became interested in aviation when, aged 13, he observed the family wash flapping in the breeze. His interest in multi-motored flight was due largely to a mosquito. Born a Russian subject, in 1889, son of a wealthy psychology professor at Kiev University, he built his first flying-machine (a helicopter) at the age of 18, was jeered by crowds when it failed to rise. His second helicopter rose 5 ft. before collapsing. Thereafter young Sikorsky built a 15-h.p. biplane (S-1), followed by two others of more horsepower. All three crashed, because Igor...
...strikers had blocked three coal cars being switched to the plant. Since the plant furnishes the town with water, Kohler's whole water supply was threatened. Father John Maguire, Federal Labor Mediator, with difficulty persuaded the strikers to let enough coal pass so that the town could drink, wash, put out fires...