Word: carburetor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...applicant for the aviation corps, one of the most technical arms of the service, is quickly accepted by the Government if he has had a whole or part of a college education, whether or not he knows a carburetor from a crankshaft. An applicant without college training however, has to have considerable technical knowledge. We must of course, give great attention to our military courses, but we can do it without neglecting the academic training that the Government has so definitely approved...
...brooms that have heretofore and hitherto been strangled in the grasp of the college goodies. A new broom sweeps clean, it is granted, but the argument peters out with that concession. Whereas a vacuum cleaner not only sweeps clean but it carries away the dust in its carburetor or gas bag or whatever the receptacle is officially dubbed. That is the sharp point in favor of the cleaner. The broom comes along and takes the dust off the floor all right, but by the time the goodie has finished making the bed and cleaning out the fireplace the dust...