Word: clutches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chauffeur, knowing that Herr Hitler only wanted to ride to the Kaiserhof Hotel 200 yards away, threatened the crowd by racing his engine in neutral, produced an impressive 180 h. p. roar. Gingerly, while police struggled with the cheering crowd, the chauffeur let his clutch part way in. pressed the Mercedes' muzzle against the good-humored crowd which very gradually gave way. The car managed to cover the 200 yards in 15 minutes...
Driving such a car in "high."he British motorist will set his preselector for "second" or "first," knowing that sooner or later a hill or traffic pause must come. When it does he merely throws out his clutch and is shifted by a mechanical thingumbob into the gear which he has "pre-selected...
...gold British sovereigns, one dated 1901, the other 1912, plinked to the mucky deck of the Italian salvage ship Artiglio II (artiglio = talon) last week as she rode off Brest, France. The sovereigns were but a tender of what the next clutch of the Artiglio IPs five-clawed dredge was to raise from the "treasure" ship Egypt 400 ft. below. The dredge dipped, scrabbled, rose 15 tense minutes later with two gold bars and a scattering of sovereigns. The Italian crew went hysterical. "Gold! Gold!" they howled. They screamed, wept, embraced. Three years of painstaking, hazardous marine engineering...
...similar products, using the stalks of sugar-cane for pulp. Its president is Bror Gustave Dahlberg. In early 1930 he sent each shareholder a personal telegram urging him not to "sacrifice" his holdings at the then current price ($50 a share). Russell Manufacturing makes automobile brake lining (Rusco), clutch disks, aero cloth, lines, rings and cords, safety belts, acid proof battery covers, surface tape. During the War it had large Government contracts for Army belts. A few months ago the company sold its business in suspenders, garters and other elastic webbings. The receivership for closely-held, 98-year-old Russell...
...most typical mystery play this reviewer remembers having seen. All the props that one usually connects with a mystery are brought on the stage some time during the evening. Ghosts, bloody knives, numerous pistol shots, screams, moving bookcases, mysterious and sinister hands that reach out from secret panels to clutch the heroine are all displayed one after another, accompanied by the horrified (or was it delighted?) screams of the teminine half of the audience...