Word: clutch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniformed Japanese policeman No. 73 shouted: "Hold your head and go away!" A Mr. Swain also advised Mr. Robison that as the U. S. Trade Commissioner he ought not to use his fists. Mr. Robison got out his glasses again, put them on, entered his car, let in his clutch. Pantherlike, one of the armbanded Japanese sprang upon the running board, hit Mr. Robison a smashing blow in the face as he drove away amid Japanese guffaws...
Stewart-Warner Corp. exhibited a new brake system, as yet not in use on any but test cars. The principle is to use the momentum of the car to check the speed. On the Stewart-Warner model this operates mechanically with a clutch attached to the brake pedal. Frederick I. Libby, young automotive engineer of Bronxville, N. Y. is working on a similar brake operated by hydraulic pressure...
...Sperry device is not supposed to take the place of a plane's crew. The human pilot must take his plane off and land it. But once in the air and on his course he adjusts the automatic device to the proper compass direction, throws in a clutch, turns his attention to weather maps, radio reports. The risk of blind flying is eliminated; the automatic pilot requires no visibility to remain on course and on even keel. Moreover, the device flies a plane more smoothly than a human. At the beginning of a flight a human pilot can make...
...pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...
...Therefore I have good reason to be so happy and contented while fear and panic clutch the throats of the press and the party swindlers...