Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce ice. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
Jacob Baur died in 1912, left his 55% interest to his wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales...
...such celebrities as Paderewski, Caruso, Valentino, Gilda Gray, Portraitist William Chase (who told him to "keep it up"). He specializes in monumental masterpieces like "The Empty Chair," "Lion of Lucerne," "Old Skipper's Tale." A special Spagnola attraction is a pair of big sand & cement dragons with light-bulb eyes, open mouths to receive coins which tinkle down through the animal, land on spaces marked "Papa Love Mama," "You're a Bit Tight." Last year Sculptor Spagnola ran a coin vote with busts of Landon and Roosevelt. Roosevelt...
...resounding click of the camera and the somewhat more violent flash of the bulb are rapidly becoming familiar disturbances to the formerly pacific routine of daily existence. Basing its policy on the age-old concept that the little things in life are after all the most important, Life Magazine has commenced to invade the home, the theatre, the dance floor, and many less agreeable places where these little things may be seen to crop out. Feeling that the nightly American practice of undressing was a valuable and instructive field to attack, Life presented its million and a half readers with...
Historically Power goes back to Edison, Ohm and Faraday to trace the origins of the force it presents as a maladministered boon. Technically it begins with the definition of a kilowatt hour ("When this thousand-watt bulb burns for an hour, that's a kilowatt hour"). From then on, by means of a pedagogical disembodied Voice, cartoon and scenic lantern slides, motion pictures and dialog between fictional and actual characters, Power grows into a loud and lively indictment of the U. S. power business's many frauds and follies. By taking stock shares out of one pocket...