Word: frame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago that Mr. Sperry turned his ubiquitous attention to that toy of mathematicians-;a flywheel with a hoop around it, spinning in a frame on light bearings-of which the internal equilibrium is sufficient to withstand outer forces that seek to upset its balance. In the arc-light field, it is 47 years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them...
...audience, out comes Mr. Houdini, dripping but quite free. Like about 50% of Mr. Houdini's vaudeville program, the solution of the "Chinese water-cell" escape is clear to any observer of normal alertness. The stocks used are made of wooden halves fitting into an iron frame with a flange in it to keep them from slipping through. No man could pull the blocks downward through this frame, but only a slight push upward by a man suspended from it would free the wooden halves of the stocks. The purchase for such a push is provided by two rings...
...right of centre with his head down for all he is worth. Meanwhile the right end, fullback, left halfback, left end and quarterback fall in behind him and push. Thus a wedge of six men is hurled at the opposing line like a flying meat axe. No human frame could withstand the momentum of this onslaught. It can be readily seen that under the old rule of five yards in three downs no ordinary defense methods could keep a team with this attack from marching down the field for touchdowns almost at will...
...Philadelphia. A great crowd flocked to the Academy of Music one afternoon last week for the opening concert of the Philadelphia Orchestra. "Buzz-buzz-buzz. . ." Well-bred greetings were hushed only when the stage darkened and two swift shafts of light shot out from either wing to frame the pale, curled head of Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Up went his hand and beauty floated, spread itself over the dusky hall-the orchestral season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer...
...White Bus. The White Motor Co. brought out a new six-cylinder bus last week with a 100-h.p. engine, overhead valves, 7-bearing crankshaft, 4-wheel metal-to-metal air brakes, 9-in. balloon tires, double-drop frame, 2-stage springs. The body, which is a single-decker, holds 18 to 23 passengers in the de luxe model for interurban service, 25 to 29 for less taxing city service...