Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then a note of warning shot into his speech, like a drop of hot red ink into a bucket of cold clear water. Rasped he: "We are the same old revolutionaries, and if our enemies think we have grown sleepy and lazy through administration, they will get a rude shock...
...Asta, Italy, one Giovanni Noverre made a wager. He then drank a glass of water, another five glasses,* another 14 glasses, another 23 glasses, then very slowly nine more, then seven more taken in gulps and sips; finally he raised the 60th glass poured it drop by drop down his gullet. After this glass, his wager won, Giovanni Noverre fell down and died...
...freight left Hartford, Conn., last week and arrived in Havana, Cuba. It carried Royal typewriters. The carrier was a Ford-Stout all-metal, three-motor airplane. Included in the equipment was a device to drop freight by parachute. It dropped these typewriters from a height of 700 feet. Unbruised, they worked perfectly...
...where a nonchalant figure, swaying on a matchstick girder, swings a pail to catch them. Loiterers many floors below stand enchanted, watching the bits of glowing metal leap obligingly like miraculously agile trout into a waiting pan. Loiterers reflect that while science sometimes fails when heavy steel bars drop down, skill is infallible, for no rivet ever falls...
...engineer-employes. It was a benefit to blindness?a process by which a full-length novel can be recorded on six double-faced, twelve-inch phonograph records. Each record "reads aloud" some 5,000 words, lasting 40 minutes. The blind audience can "turn back" should it drop off to sleep during a dull chapter, or should the reading go too swiftly during a delectable passage...