Word: plugging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many years back, for example, when Manhattan's Carl Byoir took over the Libbey-Owens-Ford plate-glass account, he got architects to plug for more glass in houses, had a book written on glass, encouraged automen to stress the safety features of more visibility (and more glass). By increasing the overall use of glass, Byoir helped boost sales of his client...
Plastic Surgeon Kiskadden urged his colleagues to warn parents of an equally potent but less obvious danger: the hollow-chamber type of appliance plug used with many vacuum cleaners, toasters, coffeepots and most irons. Even when the appliance is disconnected, the other end of the cord is often left plugged into the wall outlet. In eight years at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, he and Dr. Sanford R. Dietrich have seen 16 children, mostly under three, with severe electrical burns of the mouth. These, said Dr. Kiskadden, "are almost always caused by putting a live plug...
...little discussion of the thought that preceded them. As a result, history serves more as a humanistic garnishing than as a means for the illumination of concepts. Especially in atomic physics, the Gen. Ed. courses over-simplify so much that the student may come to feel that scientists only plug numbers in formulae...
...gunbarrel device, with a bore of not less than two inches or more than ten inches. Purpose: to fire a projectile of fissionable material into a plug of fissionable material at the end of the bore, thus creating a critical mass and atomic blast...
Last week the Labor Party National Executive Committee met again to take drastic action to plug the leaks. Eying one another suspiciously as possible sources of the leaks, the members pushed through a resolution that all meetings are to be considered as "private and confidential, and no statement should be regarded as accurate unless issued by the party's office." The British press had an effective answer to that. Lord Beaverbrook's lusty Daily Express (circ. 4,077,833) gleefully ran leaks from Labor's party meeting to consider what to do about leaks to the press...