Word: compressional
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Many steps came straight from the ballet manual. Others have never been seen before: Misha's good-natured fanny squeeze-his own derrière-and a figure in which Yankee Doodle scoops up Sarry to ring the Liberty Bell. Compression and speed obscured some of the complexity of...
Various Types. Diesel engines, of course, have powered trucks, locomotives and buses in the U.S. for decades. But their use in cars is a relatively recent phenomenon. Patented in the 1890s by Rudolf Diesel, a brilliant German engineer who died in 1913, the engine, in its various types, burns almost...
My time at Harvard, once I got by the compression bends of freshman year, was idyllic enough, and as they say successful; but I felt toward those years, while they were happening, the resentment a caterpillar must feel while his somatic cells are shifting around to make him a butterfly...
The urge to reproduce is producing some alarming results. A new impersonality has crept into human discourse, as Xeroxk copies are used more and more in place of personal communication -letters, party invitations (with the now obligatory road map), even Christmas cards. Americans seem to be losing the faculties of...
The longer-run problem in cleaning up auto exhaust is that with present equipment the carmakers cannot meet the tougher standards that will be required under present rules by 1978. Automakers get the vast majority of their cars past muster now by attaching catalytic converters that remove pollutants from exhaust...