Word: coiled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul, Robert Heger invited friends to a performance of the Hindu rope trick, most baffling of magical feats. On a dimly lighted stage a coil of rope stiffened at Heger's command, rose slowly into the air. A Hindu boy clambered up the rope, vanished. Armed with a sabre, a second Hindu swarmed up after him, tossed down arms, legs, head, torso. Finally Magician Heger enfolded the bloody members in his robe, then opened it for the Hindu lad to step forth...
Chevrolet and Pontiac have a knee-action all their own-a lever arm acting on an enclosed coil spring. Chevrolet and Pontiac knee assemblies look like a huge shock absorber. In other GM models two yokes with an open coil spring between are used. Chevrolet is heavier, longer and more powerful this year...
...dollars, pounds and francs as the mythical Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons once wrestled with snakes which crushed them for the crime of defying Apollo. Recently the London News Chronicle, which favors cartoons of classic inspiration, printed a Laocoon group (see cut) in which the currency serpents coil around British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, James M. Cox, U. S. Delegate and Chairman of the World Conference Monetary Committee, and French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet. Last week, a few hours after the Conference adjourned (see p. 16), Chancellor Chamberlain was able to issue a joint declaration...
...killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling around a native who had been directed to yelp when the coil grew uncomfortably tight. Instead of yelping, the native fainted, had to be rescued by four of his confreres. Sai-Yu, who watched the python shooting, cried all that...
...beacon marking the course, and occasional spoken words from ground stations. Heretofore a complete receiving set was required for each purpose. Last week after months of work by Radio Engineers F. E. Gray and A. W. Parkes, Eastern Air Transport announced development (with Aircraft Radio Corp.) of a dual coil attachment by which one receiver can do all the work. As installed on E. A. T.'s Condors, the device reduces radio weight from 110 lb. to 80 lb., eliminates $550 worth of equipment. With fewer parts the new set can be inspected in half the time...