Word: churning
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...radiator, light an electric light and open drawers. Last week in Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, an inventor stood before a group of newspaper men. Beside him was a washing machine with a bright tube affixed to its side. He raised his hand. The washing machine began to churn. He raised it again, beaming like a schoolboy. The washing machine stopped. He-V. K. Zworykin- was demonstrating a radio tube* so sensitive that the mere interruption of light-rays is enough to stop or start it. The tube can be attached, not merely to a washing machine...
...shining rewards at the top of the profession! They attract all youths and sundry. Some, through sheer ability no matter what school they came from, will attain the goal. But many among them, if we may credit the dictum of the Boston lawyer here cited, will never spin the churn themselves, but ironically will greatly help others to win it. By reason of the incompetent advice which incompetent men among them will give, and by reason of the litigation which the petty attorney seeks always to foster, they will be constantly creating legal muddles and complications which the more competent...