Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action served to stiffen rail bond prices, give rail stocks a gentle fillip. Pennsylvania was reported ready to bolt the merger plan rather than suffer exile from New England. Big Four executives called a meeting for this week to determine their next step. But bets were that the Depression, which had brought Pennsylvania's Atterbury, B. & O.'s Willard, New York Central's Crowley* and C. & O.'s Bernet together, would be over before every passenger coach and freight car in the East bears the name of one of their systems...
Last week Paavo Nurmi arrived in the U. S., hoping to compete for Finland in the Olympic Games. The Finnish team was threatening to "bolt" the games if an official ruling, declaring Nurmi ineligible because of professionalism, were not rescinded...
...Warder lock, which Master Courtney scorns, consists essentially of a solid bolt with a notch or peg on its stem. The key engages the notch or peg and thus slides the bolt to or fro. Almost anything which can pass through the keyhole can throw this simple lock. To impede such easy passage a trifle, locksmiths sometimes notch the keyhole. Ordinarily only keys with grooved bits which fit the notches can get through such keyholes...
Lever locks are better. They contain two or more thin, spring-action levers. Each lever must be raised to a certain, precise position before they will permit the key to engage the bolt. Ordinarily only keys whose bits are properly notched to touch and raise all the levers simultaneously can move the bolt...
...scaffold at Exeter in 1885 stood Murderer John Lee, noose about his neck waiting to be hanged. The sheriff gave the sign, the bolt under the scaffold's platform was withdrawn. The platform did not drop. They tinkered the bolt, but still the platform would not fall. John Lee was returned to his cell. A warder stood on the platform, the bolt was drawn, the platform fell. John Lee climbed up again, the bolt was drawn, the platform would not fall. They planed its edges but nothing worked. Unhangable John Lee's case was debated in the House...