Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer the centre. Hence seamen invariably reach a calm spot when fighting their way through these hurricanes...
...huge reptile chase, catch and drag down a horse. Several specimens were shot and will be mounted for the American Museum. Three were taken alive by the method small boys employ to snare rabbits: a noose dangling from a bent sapling. The largest of the three escaped, traveling far faster than...
...corner of the court, he approximated this direction only by trying to stand all four corners at the same time. Tilden seemed to encourage this youthful insurgence. The champion was grim. He did not fool at all and actually managed, with terrific serves and drives that swish faster than any others on this earth, to take a set, the second. But even his efforts, and those of the doughty Chapin, could not prevail against the gleaming, electrical teamwork of Richards and Williams who, rushing for the net after every serve, volleyed their way to the doubles championship...
...fatigue the ability to regenerate electric potential is reduced, in exhaustion it almost ceases. In death it stops altogether. In death there is no difference, chemical or electrical, between nucleus and cytoplasm. This fact Dr. Crile noted. He noted, too, that the brain and the liver decomposed 100 times faster than the heart or voluntary muscles. So he supposed that the brain is the positive pole of the human battery (collection of cells), that the liver is the negative pole. Heart, lungs, stomach are only accessories to the electrical operation of liver and brain. He found much data to support...
...closed car passengers from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor mounting; new camshaft. Nash has refined motor, 25% more power, 23% faster accelerator, new instrument board. Oakland. "The rubber-silenced chassis"; new bodies, new Duco colors. Star offers "more power and superior quality . . . new body lines, new colors, new mechanical refinements." Studebaker stresses "The President"; "custom car without custom car cost." Stutz. Safety glass in all windows and windshield, with no extra...