Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, the great Detroiter (Hutchinson killer) was turned up, a monstrous craft capable of supporting twoscore men on her outstretched wings. Charging forward thunderously, she soon leapt up from the snow and swung about the sky. But she too, when she alighted, plowed through the snow so heavily that...
The boat which will carry the expedition north into the ice-fields will be called the "Chance." She is now being built in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia, by William McKaye, a direct descendant of the Donald McKaye who made Boston famous with his clipper-ships. The "Chance" will be 75 feet...
By 1878 he felt enough of a journalist to ask his half-brothers for $10,000 to start a paper in Cleveland, and they thought enough of him to produce it. With a dinky little engine, a few boxes of type, a small hand-me-down press, an $18 editorial...
Their bicycles were not built for two. Taut skeletons of aluminum and steel, so light that they can be lifted on a stiff forefinger, so strong that they can endure terrific smashes, their racing bicycles reveal what a strenuous age has done to an engine once fitted for leisured lovemaking...
"Think of asking twelve men, picked up from all parts of this state, none of them knowing anything of law, being asked to settle a case like this. I am a mechanic. I could take an engine apart and tell you why it didn't go, but why ask...