Word: discs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coupe-4-cyl. FORD CHEVROLET 52 CHRYSLER WHIPPET STAR STAR $550 $625 $870 $755 steel Fisher Hayes-Hunt steel pyroxylin Duco Duco paint steel spoke steel disc wood wood 4 2 2 4 balloon balloon balloon balloon 104" 103" 106" 101 H" Triplex plate plate plate hydraulic none none Gabriel...
Cleaner. Dirt and trash are removed from the fibres by dropping the fluff on a rapidly revolving disc. Heavy particles are drawn out by the centrifugal force. A belt-and-cylinder device cleans further. The fluff is bagged at the rear of the machine...
...German boarhound, one Nero, followed the improvident example of the U. S. tourists until he finally sagged down op the deck in utter exhaustion, refusing food and whining in alarm at the large, low, red disc of the Midnight Sun. On the return journey, when night first descended, its coming was greeted by Boarhound Nero with rich, prolonged, joyous baying...
...whither gathered 70,000 and Sir Frank Dyson, Astronomer Royal. Shortly before the time that the eclipse was due-which scientists miscalculated by three seconds-the clouds over Giggleswick parted, making way for the heavenly two-ring circus. For 23 seconds, the sun was totally obscured by the black disc of the moon. When the sun is in this condition, its pearl-white corona is visible, with vivid scarlet flames streaming from it. The corona was once thought to be only reflected sunlight, but modern observers know it has gaseous structure; contains an unknown element which gives a green...
...Buffalo, N. Y., one George Malloy, 19, walking to church, spied and picked up a small disc that bulged in the middle. During a Methodist-Episcopal service he amused himself by picking and stabbing at his curious treasure with his pen knife. His inattention bothered no one until Blam! off blew Picker Malloy's thumb and forefinger...