Word: antone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steeple of the Park Avenue Baptist Church a man was capering in frenzied activity, engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur, Anton Breese, once assistant in the Cathedral of Antwerp, pushed a lever. The 9-ton bass bell sent its huge note jarring down the street like a slow blackbird. He pushed another, and the tenor bell, which weighs no more than an ordinary country dinner-clapper, spoke clear and high...
...Captain Anton Heinen, German dirigible expert acted as advisor during the construction of the Shenandoah. He referred last week to the report that eight of the 18 safety valves in the ship's gas bags had been removed before her trip: '. would not call it murder, but I cannot put it too strong that if it had not been for the foolishness in cutting down the number of safety valves the crash would not have occured .... Now there will be a whitewash board of inquiry and some camouflage to cover up the real story of the cause which...
...some secluded Tyrolese hamlet. He dedicates the book to Edith Wharton because, when he published Futility (with the aid of the late Katherine Mansfield), Mrs. Wharton, to whom he was a stranger, wrote: "Do, for the sake of all of us, keep it up!" His one other book, Anton Chechov: A Critical Study, has, as a critical study, no peer...
Lieutenants Joseph M. Kiernan and W. W. Hastings, students of naval architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were the rotorists. Working with discarded materials, they had constructed a craft that differed from the original rotorship of Herr Anton Flettner of Germany (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Mar. 2), in two respects: Where Flettner's R. S. Buckau had had two rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle...
Press reports declared that Anton Flettner, inventor of the rotorship (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Feb. 16, Mar. 2), was about to erect a windmill on a tower 650 ft. high with two arms, each 150 ft. long...