Word: archimedean
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...mixed with straw, the same kind of building material used in Moses' time. The old woman's husband, Hammouda Hamed, tills his two acres of land very much as his ancient Egyptian ancestors did. He lifts water from irrigation rivulets to his field by hand-turning an Archimedean screw invented in antiquity. He gets water up to the level of the field by the ages-old device of blindfolding his gamoosa (water buffalo) and driving the animal around in a circle to turn a water wheel. At night, Hammouda's buffalo and chickens sleep in the house...
...Southern Baptist Institute of Technology, where he goes to teach engineering. To drill a little knowledge into the classroom cementheads he adopts football lingo. Chorus the enlightened mastodons of the monosyllable: "It's fun to think." Soon Fodorski gets a chance to apply his Archimedean magic to the great gridironic decisions of educational life, like defeating S.B.I.T.'s football rival. Texas Mohammedan. Fodorski's human pinwheel and pyramidal enemy line-scaling plays make him "All-American coach of the year" and. together with a display of pectoral muscularity called Physical Fitness, give the show its most rollicking...
...desperately hard-up writer named Edgar Allan Poe submitted a sensational story to the New York Sun. A coal-gas balloon "employing the principle of the Archimedean screw," he said, had crossed the Atlantic Ocean in three days. The gullible Sun splashed this fantasy over its front page; two days later it ruefully apologized...
Wage Floor. The implications of a worldwide minimum wage are enormous. Its proposal by a member of an Empire Government, even in unofficial capacity, is arresting. Was he thinking of China? India? the Malay States? Or was he groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...
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