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...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 »

...Outside Loop." Imagine sitting upright on top of an enormous flywheel, 2,000 feet in diameter. You are strapped to its outer rim. The wheel is in motion, whirling you forward and downward at a speed which increases from 150 miles per hour to 280 miles per hour when you are upside down, beneath it. Then you are carried upward to your original position and are safe, for this wheel will not torture you with another revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics Notes, Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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