Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fan with rotary blades, to be held in the hand and operated by opening & closing the fingers...
...fan which can be geared to a sewing machine to keep the operator cool. > A motor which can be geared to the steering wheel of an automobile, to help the driver turn the wheel when parking...
...great.) Results for German designers: the in-line engine, now cooled with ethylene glycol (Prestone) instead of water, has been made more compact, as light as the radial, much more adaptable to streamlining, since its cylinders extend back on a long crankshaft instead of spreading out like a fan. It can be tucked as neatly into airplane design as a sword into a scabbard...
Miss Kawashima, who was fond of men's clothes and men's sports, took for her first victim her husband, Prince Fan Chulchab of Outer Mongolia, whose Soviet connections she promptly betrayed to Japanese officers in Dairen. She was credited with inducing Henry Pu-yi to become the Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo, with having fought alongside Japanese troops in their 1933 campaign in Jehol. After this campaign, in which she was supposed to have been wounded, she conferred an honor on herself, called herself the "Joan of Arc of Jehol...
They were arrested after they telephoned for police and told their story. "I, was a breeze," they said. "Like throwing an egg into an electric fan...