Word: gears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Sharpening Saw. A circular blade for power saws that can be sharpened by merely sawing in reverse gear has been put on the market by Chicago's Skil Corp. Price...
...bottoms of the deep oceans were once believed to be smooth, but modern sounding gear has found all sorts of irregularities. Certain great areas, however, are almost as level as the water surface above them, and the origin of these smooth "abyssal plains" is something of a mystery. Many theories about them have been proposed, including the easy explanation that the plains are smooth because nothing ever happened to make them otherwise...
...Press Clatter. Most Likely to Succeed is perhaps the most savage satire against the gulliberal so far produced by an American. Dos Passos is angry, but he shifts his anger into a high gear of farce, at least for the first 200 pages. Dos Passos writes with a giddy, go-to-press clatter that has not been heard in his books since the '20s, and the mood of Village radicalism in those days is brilliantly laid...
Secret Weapon. In Columbus, Ohio, Policemen George Kegg and Ed Welch saw Pettis Adams run from a restaurant, threw their patrol car into second gear to give chase, caught their man when the noise of their backfire made Adams stop running and raise his hands...
Near Cambridge, Tusek won points by proving that his versatile Steamer (a Stanley Steamer once held a speed record of 127.66 m.p.h.) could travel slowest in the "high gear"*contest (0:38.6 for 50 yards). Roadside enthusiasts waited hours in all weather to see him pass. "Do you think it's going to explode now?" hopeful youngsters asked their parents. Cyclists and motorists followed Tusek for miles to see if the Steamer would oblige...