Word: clutching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doctors have battled epidemics of infantile paralysis for 50 years, but they still know practically nothing about the cause & cure of that dread disease. In trying to come to grips with poliomyelitis, they still clutch at brilliant, fantastic-sounding clues hit on from time to time by hard-working bacteriologists. Last week, at the Manhattan meeting of the International Congress for Microbiology, two new clues turned...
When she was returning to Britain from the U. S. four years ago, British dogcatchers stuffed Mrs. Patrick Campbell's Pekingese, Moonbeam, into a crate labeled "rabies," hustled him, "shrieking with indignation," into quarantine. Next day Actress Campbell snatched Moonbeam from the official clutch, sailed back to the U. S., eventually settled in Paris. Last week, still miffed, still dandling Moonbeam, she soliloquized: "It was easier for me to sacrifice the happiness of giving my talent to my English audience . . . than to break my little dog's heart...
...Clement and Mulcahey in the 175 lb. and Stone and Ferrid in the 135 lb. classes grappled to extra-period dead-locks. The Yardlings' quickest win was Bob Benchley's 1:12 pinning of Wright. The other Freshman points came from Jim Redman's 6:53 clutch of Burham in the 121 lb. class. Blaine, Conlin, and Sullivan dropped their bouts...
...conventional clutch is a cushioned disk (connected to the transmission gears), which takes power from the engine when it is forced against a disk on the face of the engine's spinning flywheel. In fluid drive the flywheel is equipped not with a disk, but with a sort of water wheel. Facing the blades of this water wheel is a similar set of blades on the transmission shaft. The two sets of blades are enclosed in a sealed compartment filled with light oil. As the flywheel gathers speed, the blades attached to it set the oil in motion...
...automobile itself, but until recently not made efficient. Already in use in the British Daimler's "fluid flywheel," it is also the basis for hydraulic transmissions being installed this year by General Motors on 150 busses. The General Motors adaptation replaces not only the clutch, but all transmission gears except reverse, relieving the bus driver of the job of clutching and shifting gears in ordinary stop-and-go operation, making less harried the task of driving, opening and closing doors and collecting fares...