Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardly see the flowers for the McCormicks one afternoon last week in Chicago's Chester Johnson Galleries. The smart and art sets were gathered, 500 strong, for a gala tea. There was Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, pouring, looking pale & wan; crippled Robert Hall McCormick cheerily greeting everyone from his wheel chair; Mr. & Mrs. Chauncey McCormick; Mrs. Fowler (Fifi Stillman) McCormick. and many another of the Clan McCormick. Ill abed, Harold McCormick sent roses. A late arrival?he had been to the funeral of Packer Edward Foster Swift (TIME, June 6)?was Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago...
Last week Pan American Airways announced perfection of a visual "synchronizer" developed by George Kraigher, chief pilot on the western division. It is based on the principle by which a wagon wheel in a motion picture appears to skid. It seems to skid because the spokes of the wheel accidentally become synchronized with the camera shutter...
...Samuel Finley Breese Morse, famed painter, first got the idea of transmitting "intelligence by electricity." In 1837 Telegrapher Morse sent his first test message ("Attention, the Universe, by kingdoms right wheel") from one side of Manhattan's Washington Square to the other. Six years later Congress voted him $30,000 for telegraphic experiments. The next year his first long-distance message ("What hath God wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously...
...Samuel Morse's first message by telegraph: "Attention, the Universe, by kingdoms right wheel...
...hours later two other orderlies took charge of Howard Edwards. Up & down the hospital corridors they marched him, down & up stairs, in & out of rooms, all night long. Then they put him in a wheel chair. Howard Edwards sighed with relief, began to doze. The wheel chair performed a series of jolts, jerks, starts and stops, almost spilling Howard Edwards out. "I'm sick!" cried Howard Edwards. "If I die, I die." The orderlies, unmoved, made him walk again...