Word: driven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bubble level will not correctly indicate a true vertical line, when subject to the air disturbances a plane must inevitably meet. A spinning top, once vertical, will stay with its axis vertical no matter how disturbed. So will a gyroscope. By a simple adaptation of the gyroscope, driven by an air jet, a true level indicator has been developed...
...minutes later he appeared accompanied by Herr Leopold von Hoesch, former German Chargé d'Affaires* in Paris, recently appointed German Ambassador. Both men entered the carriage and were driven...
...Zweibrücken the Separatists were driven from the town by the infuriated populace...
Contrary to regulations, General Feng was accompanied by three armed soldiers who stood on the footboards of his car. Also contrary to regulations the General's car was being driven at a high speed. Again contrary to regulations, the headlights on the General's car were turned full...
...Planks" of necessity they are, but they fit directly into a scaffolding. And the scaffolding itself suggests a finer structure of which it has only been possible to sketch the elevation. If any nails are to be driven home to ensure the stability of even one upright, the only student body capable of driving them is the representative council. If, as has been so far promised by vague rumorings, it shakes off its former lethargy, it can wield to effect the hammer it has long unconsciously held...