Word: hooped
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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...
...nature to be the associate of Publisher Ochs. Two such opposites could never have kept apart. They would have been an irresistible vaudeville team, courtly, Ochs feeding gag-lines to impish Wiley; they would have made a handy pair of tumblers, big Ochs tossing tiny Wiley through a hoop. If the latter event had ever taken place, Wiley would have landed on his head, a part of him which seems to overweigh, though not to overbalance, his short, active frame. Seen by himself, he looks quite in proportion; seen against a background of other figures he suggests those pictures that...
George B. Cortelyou, President of the Gas Company, had arranged a last performance in the famous place. Under the huge chandelier that once had gravely lighted the 3,000 elegants in hoop-skirts and tight trousers who danced there one memorable night (Oct. 12, 1860) under the eyes of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales? upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field...
...planned Captain Jinks, I would have made some radical changes. Instead of the present dancing costumes, I should have had the chorus doing the Charleston in crinolines, or in hoop skirts...
...baseman, Leo Diegel, Canadian open golf champion, Edwin F. Harkins, famed fisherman, and Er. Paul W. Crouse, champion U.S. bow and arrower, indulging in a contest over a set distance, the archer to hit a 12-inch target, the fisherman to drop his bait in the a yard-wide hoop, the baseman to hit a tub as wide as a man's chest, and the golfer to sink is putt. Imagine it, said the The New York Evening World, and forthwith, over the last nine holes of the Belleclaire Country Club, L.I., thet hing came to pass...