Word: beveling
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Giving the Boston Rally an idea of the crusading, almost religious spirit of the Birmingham battle, the Rev. James Bevel, a leader of the movement, said he was "not willing to wait" for integration. "The whole country should stop until we end segregation," he urged...
...solved. Each dial sets two movable parts -an 8-in. stainless steel disk, mirror-smooth, and a smaller wheel with a knife edge in contact with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final solution appears with a maximum error...
...ancient with an inventive mind discovered by cutting off the butt end of a feather on a bevel that he had a tube shaped like a reed pen. It also served for writing; it was a quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into...
That the chassis is lower than ever, having in one case (Stutz) even returned to the silent, worm-drive form of rear axle which permits cars to be slung 5 in. lower than the bevel-gear type, without loss of headroom...
...work has steadily deteriorated. On Tuesday Tappan went in at three and Emmons was changed to 7 on the second crew. Thursday, the last day the men rowed together, the boat was heavy and spaced poorly between strokes. The catch was uneven, several men had very little bevel on their blades, and on the port side there was considerable splashing on the catch. Fish at number 2 rushed his slide and was slow getting his hands away from his body on the recovery, and at 6 R. Bacon did not get the full force of his shoulders into his stroke...