Word: carburetor
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...contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony orchestra without a kettledrummer, for instance, is about as helpless as a car without a carburetor...
...usual chemical method of obtaining vitamins from fish oil is to remove the oil and leave the vitamin-like obtaining a carburetor by removing the rest of an automobile of which it is part. Distilling is a more efficient method of obtaining vitamins from oils, but distilling vitamins is not so simple as distilling whiskey. Vitamin distillation has been practical only in recent years, has not yet been completely commercialized. Last week, at scientific meetings in Ithaca, Manhattan and Washington, Dr. Kenneth Claude Devereux Hickman of Eastman Kodak laboratories, Rochester, N. Y.-a British bachelor of 41 who likes...
...engine conked out. The plane nosed over in the forced landing, but damage was negligible and the research gains were tremendous. After the Aviation Show the "overweather" plane retired for an overhaul. Last week, with a radical new fuel injection system made by Eclipse Corp. that eliminates the carburetor, it was given its first tests by President Frye in person preparatory to more visits to the substratosphere...
...settle down to the business of climbing. The Cyclone is getting rough. A bit of heat in the carburetor and a little tinkering with the air mixture. It's smooth again. At 18,000 feet the cold is growing disagreeable...
...grey light are marching over blackness and lights alike. My wing tips extend over the Atlantic and the Sound. Blanked out by my fuselage is the Island. I must go home. I am getting tired with deep breathing. Turn about to the West. Throttle down. More heat to the carburetor...