Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virginian, though bonds have been sold since the death of Oilman Rogers. For more than 15 years all the preferred stock, which has voting rights, together with most of the common, has been held by a voting trust. The trust was terminated last month, and the bankers bought their block of preferred from private owners, the Rogers family presumably, since the founder's heirs virtually owned the Virginian outright. No new money for the rich carrier was involved...
...that last evening he did see La Argentina dance and very happily too and after he did see her and talk with her and though he didn't go seeking a pep talk, the conversation did reach a depth when Browning was quoted to the effect that each stumbling block in life could be made a stepping stone. And that little cliche offers a nice transition to what we have to say further of Mr. Cooper...
...Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze and twist them at the same time. Therefore instead of letting the vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them a flat, hard steel block, ground microscopically smooth on its upper and lower sides. Between the block surfaces and the cylinder faces are placed specks (one-tenth gram or less) of the stuff to be tested. Straight pressure is applied, squeezing out some of the stuff from under the pistons, until the friction...
...slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said, "She's made up her mind about trailers," led her on foot the 25 mi. to her quarters in Pompton Lakes...
...apparatus, however, the containers have been changed in shape from cylindrical to conical. The cone is pressed more and more tightly into a heavy external block of steel as the force from behind increases. Thus the external pressure becomes greater as the internal pressure is increased, and the cone retains the same size, allowing accurate measurements. With this apparatus routine pressures have been obtained as great as 50,000 atmospheres, and 70,000 atmospheres has occasionally been reached. 70,000 atmospheres is about 514 tons to a square inch...