Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-pressure exhaust gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...
...officers in his headquarters. Army Intelligence had captured a German officer dressed in a U.S. uniform. He confessed that he was one of a band of 60 Nazis heading for Versailles to assassinate Ike. Kay apprehensively recounts: "The normal guard was doubled, trebled, quadrupled. The sound of a car exhaust was enough to halt work in every office, to start a flurry of telephone calls to our office to inquire if the Boss were all right." Ike was not allowed to stick his nose outside the compound. Finally he did, grumbling, "Hell's fire, I'm, going...
Next Moment, Whoom! To watch* a jet engine spring into life is to feel that power. Dimly visible inside is the turbine, like a small windmill with close-set vanes. When the starting motor whines, the turbine spins. A tainted breeze blows through the exhaust vent in the tail, followed by a thin grey fog of atomized kerosene. Deep in the engine a single sparkplug buzzes. A spot of fire dances in a circle behind the turbine. Next moment, with a hollow whoom, a great yellow flame leaps out. It cuts back to a faint blue cone, a cone that...
...major fussing, John L. soon made clear, was again going to be over welfare funds. With the 1947 fund blocked by court action, his miners' union was spending its 1946 purse at a rate which would exhaust it by July 1. Payments from the $26 million kitty had averaged about $2,000,000 a month; now the U.M.W. was pouring out the remaining $4,500,000 in one month. Thus John L. could cry: "If this desperately needed assistance . . . stops, as it will at the end of June unless the 1947 fund is unfrozen, it will cause a major...
...which the conductor must blend-in time and volume-with the playing of 100 others. And while concentrating on the notes being played at any given moment, the conductor must also have one part of his mind listening to the entire piece. He must be on guard not to exhaust prematurely, in a too early climax, the excitement meant for a later one; to make each part shine for itself, and fit in a whole. It is not a metronome that is required, but taste, talent, culture and care-and some musical X besides. Toscanini has that X blazoned...