Word: locking
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pronounced burr, Roger McEwan of Glasgow. With his sister Alice he jogged and pranced through the fast fox-trot (he calls it the Quick-step). Swifter than that of 1929, it has more jigs, zigzags, nickers, turns and quarter-turns. One turn, for its peculiar twist, he calls the Lock & Key. Music 54 bars to the minute supplies the rhythms...
...concluded will be presented to the Federal Trade Commission. Although a Gillette-Auto Strop merger would settle the suit in which Auto Strop charges that Gillette's new blade is an infringement of Auto Strop's patented Probak blade, it would not end Gillette's troubles. Last week Segal Lock & Hardware Co., potent gadgetmaker, was well along with an advertising campaign for Segal Razor Blade, patents pending. While this new blade is being introduced only in New York at present, Segal plans a national campaign in the near future, may harass both Gillette and Auto Strop...
...done to aid and promote the progress of a boy; where classrooms may be free from the formal ranks of desks fastened to the floor and made more appealing with chairs and tables; where the bright as well as the slower student can advance without the hindrance of a lock-step regimentation. . . . You may call it 'Progressive Education' if you wish-I don't care...
...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...
...drill, capable of piercing 50 ft. of ice from beneath, to enable him to stop the craft under the polar ice pack, take on fresh air, recharge batteries, make observations. A trolley riding on the under side of the ice would indicate the position of the boat. A pressure lock would enable men in diving suits to leave and re-enter the submerged ship...