Word: lilliputians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such is the story of Putzi, a premature baby who lived in a jar of alcohol on its parents' mantelpiece, became a hero when his father discovered he was a perfect barometer, sinking to the bottom on approach of bad weather, bobbing to the top, with "a Lilliputian smile and rosy cheeks," at the approach of fair...
...next week is really the fourth DC-4. First was a "mock-up"-a full-sized wooden replica, exact in every detail, for a study of space requirements, load placement, general structure. DC-4 No. 2 was a perfect scale model, with 8 ft. 3 in. wingspan. This Lilliputian transport "flew" through 1,100 hours and $25,000 worth of wind tunnel tests at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech. Third stage was a Spanish Inquisition by Douglas engineers, who systematically squeezed, banged, shook, stretched, heated, froze, destroyed every part, every material. They built huge testing machines many times...
Combining business with pleasure is being effectively done by Harry R. Mimno, Acting Dean of the Engeering School. Witness the Lilliputian Zoppelin which flies many times daily between Pierce Hall and Cruft Laboratories. At the end of the cableway which supports this busy aircraft are hangers, appropriately named Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst...
...half-radical, half-timid measures caused Senator Joseph Caillaux to charge the Cabinet in open debate with "Lilliputian Rooseveltism." For example, M. Auriol announced an enormous issue of "Baby Bonds," apparently to be bought by Socialists and Communists of modest means to help the Cabinet make a stand against the "Financial Oligarchy...
...Amalgamated Operators' Association, the Greater New York Operators' Association, the Metropolitan Jobbers' Association and the Skill Games Board of Trade chose no less a personage than Major General John F. O'Ryan, onetime (1934) Police Commissioner of New York, to help solve their intricate, if Lilliputian, problems. General O'Ryan refused the post...