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Word: flywheel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First race. Miguel Barella, captain of the Spanish team, failed to get his motor going in time to start. Britain's Joseph C. Turner, who smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Speed Boats | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...number of important symptoms indicate that the bottom has been reached in prices, and that all that is necessary is to give the flywheel a push and the economic machinery will spin of it" own accord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One-Year Plan | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...flywheel of the principal Papal dynamo (there are four) has been painted white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: White Flywheel | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...There will always be earthquakes, just as it will always be necessary to adjust flywheels. The spinning of the earth is not unlike a flywheel's motion. Factors are constantly at work calling for readjustment. Pressure on different parts of the earth's crust varies. Even the moon may have some effect. I look upon the quake recorded yesterday as the first of a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Vengeance of Providence | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

Down the block, Blackamoor James Brice was sawing wood with a buzzsaw. The flywheel of James Brice's buzz-saw flew off, sailed over a church, crashed through the roof of a house, decapitated Winnie Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Galoshes | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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