Word: belt
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...turntable itself is a re-worked Rek-O-Kut N33H, the motor-board which Bruce has sawed in half, suspends the motor separately from the table to reduce the rumble even below its already low figure. A special belt had to be used to drive the table, since the one supplied by Rek-O-Kut was not adaptable for such use. A sheet of copper lies under the whole unit, grounded by special cable to the Marants Pre-amplifier. As a result of these precautions total noise in the Humphrey system has been reduced to the point where...
...Wilderness (1863). There is a violent episode, the sort Warren has written twenty times, in which two men are shown to have the mark of Cain: a Negro clerk has the brand of a deserter on his buttocks, and Adam's employer wears a highly symbolic money belt. And at the end there is an intertwinedness-of-guilt scene; ragged Confederates have stolen Adam's boots, and he, soliloquizing on the oneness of man, takes a pair from a dead man. That is all there...
...fluorescent lights burned late into the night as a team of engineers bent over their drawing boards rushing to complete plans for Asia's biggest steam power plant. By 1964 the 300 megawatt Bandel power station is scheduled to supply badly needed electricity to Calcutta's industrial belt. But almost as significant to the Indian economy as the $54 million project itself is the fact that the engineers designing it are all Indians-members of Kuljian Corp. of India, the first Indian-run consulting engineering firm capable of handling so complex a power...
Seventy-five pounds of the copper filaments soared aloft aboard a Midas IV satellite two weeks ago, in an experiment conducted by M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. Anticipating that the copper hairs would form a belt encircling the globe, the scientists hoped that this belt would act as a huge antenna, reflecting radio signals back to earth...
...That's why they run off to Yale on weekends. And they don't connect the academic with their lives." An equally nasty remark from "a sharp-eyed Brooklyn College senior" prefaces this insult from "a faculty member": "I sometimes imagine that I see these girls on a conveyor belt which shuffles them through four years of college... to the altar and the kitchen...