Word: foolproof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe, was not grinning one day last week when attendants at the Worcester, Mass, airport pulled him from beneath his crashed Travel Air "mystery plane" Texaco 13. Day before he had hopped from Detroit (in 3 hr. 5 min.). lectured the Worcester Boy Scouts on the necessity of developing foolproof planes, but had delayed his departure until the next morning because of a soggy field. An escort plane had nosed up when it landed just ahead of Capt. Hawks...
...left a note: "My work is done. Why wait?'' Born in Waterville, N. Y. in 1854, he started Eastman Dry Plate Co. in Rochester in 1880. First man to realize the possibilities of amateur as opposed to professional photography, he devoted himself to making cameras simple, handy, foolproof. The first Kodak appeared in 1888, contained film for 100 pictures which, when taken, were sent back (camera & all) to the Kodak factory for development. Hence the famed slogan: "You press the button. We do the rest." The development of a flexible, transparent photographic film in 1889 coincided with Thomas Alva Edison...
Take, for example, the argument about what constitutes an amateur. For fifty years various official bodies have been trying to invent an automatic and foolproof definition of amateurism. They have not only failed to invent one which is not readily broken in the spirit, however much it may be observed in the letter, but the failure has produced a widespread feeling that the ideal of amateurism is foolish, highbrow and snobbish. The reason for this is plain. An amateur is usually defined as a man who does not compete for money and does not practice athletics...