Word: bolting
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Round nails supplanted square nails; welding is taking the place of rivets. Yet brash would seem the man who would change the other vital method of joining parts to parts, the nut & bolt. As old as the Christian era is the principle of the screwthread, discovered by Archimedes, elaborated by Hero of Alexandria. But bolting is far from perfect. Vibration shakes loose the tightest of nuts, and just as for want of a nail the battle was lost, many a time for want of a bolt the airplane has crashed, the train has been wrecked, the powerplant shut down...
...airplane wrecks motivated him, but the fact that many shells became loose in their whirling trip through the air, became duds instead of explosive missiles. No mechanic, never having touched a monkey-wrench, he set about the problem in a purely theoretical way, writing upon a piece of paper "bolt, nut, parts joined...
Reports reached Paris last week that the little lads of the Fascist Balilla (Italy's militarized Boy Scouts) now chant this brisk, stirring air as they march along shouldering small bolt-action rifles of the latest Italian Army type. To cut off the head of Marianne is, of course, to decapitate France. The fact that France and Italy quarreled at the London Naval Conference (TIME, Jan. 27 et seq.), coupled with the hostile tone the Italian Press has taken since, made French papers play up under biggest scare heads last week certain routine naval developments at home...
...doorways bearing armfuls of documents. Typists rattled their keys with a triumphant staccato. In a high-ceiled inner room overlooking Trinity Church's grimy spire, an elderly man with thin white hair, a well-trimmed white beard parted in the middle, good solid shoulders and a small paunch, sat bolt upright in a stiff high-backed chair. The pivot of all the commotion, he was intensely busy?and intensely happy. Within a few days, God willing, he would become the eleventh Chief Justice...
...screams as he throws back the lid of the coffin, "AND HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...