Word: cogs
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Jostled by bombs, Big Ben-according to jibes of Berlin's imaginative radio propagandists-slipped a cog last week, struck thirteen times during an air raid...
Having had some voice lessons, he gave some thought to singing as a career. His brother, a professional singer, listened and shook his head. But doughty Dr. LeMaster was determined never to become "a mere cog in the machine of state medicine." There were always beer kegs. He went to see Firestone Steel Products Co., which manufactures stainless steel beer kegs. Last week Dr. LeMaster started out as one of their salesmen...
Charges circulated by the Committee on Militarism of New York City that the Civilian Aeronautics Authority is merely a cog in the national defense machinery provoked strong replies yesterday from instructors in the Pilot Training Program here...
...rich in tradition, money, or great teachers, Ohio State counts among its graduates many an important cog in the nation's work. Star alumni: Inventor Charles Franklin Kettering, president of General Motors Research Corp., who worked his way through; Humorist James Thurber...
...Claude and Esther. His roustabouts wear natty, filling-station-style uniforms with cowboy hats, clown around on bucking steers between sales. Buzz himself is no mail-order Westerner. Colorado-born, he worked for a spell as a brakeman on Spencer Penrose's Pike's Peak cog road. As a prelude to his success story, he tells the curious: "I'm no relation to the ex-President, the G-Man or the vacuum cleaner...