Word: cogwheels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week's end only clues were those sifted from the earth, picked out of victims' flesh: a clock's cogwheel, bomb fragments, strands of fine upholsterer's hair which had been used to pad the dynamite sticks...
...undergraduates narrowly escaped death yesterday noon when the cogwheel of an elevator in the University Muscum gave way. The lift was dropped form the ground floor to the basement, while the three-foot cogwheel fell from the top of the shaft and harely missed the students who were returning to the ground floor after a Geography class...
...hand-operated elevator was put into the Muscum about 40 years ago, and was said to be the oldest in Cambridge. Considerable stain was probably placed on the cogwheel when a one-and-a-half ton meteorite was carried up on the lift last summer, Muscum officials said...
...times of Jupiter's satellites according to Earth's distance from that planet. His calculation was only about 3% too high. First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth of the wheel to intercept the light as it was reflected. By timing the revolutions per second of the cogwheel and measuring the distance...
...Chicago last week there was a notable directors' meeting, not for big corporations but of Rotary International, whose crest is a cogwheel and whose motto is "Service above Self-He profits most who serves best." To 1,000 lunching Rotary Clubs throughout the land and to the city where Rotary was born 29 years ago. the directors brought messages of Hope. Goodwill and a Bright Future from all over the world. Samples: "India faces the future with confidence." -Frederick Ernest James, Madras planter and Honorary General Commissioner of Rotary for Middle Asia. "Leaders of China are engaged in reconstruction...