Word: injection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advantage of Diesel motors over gasoline motors in automobiles would be their simplicity of structure and absence of vibration. Instead of a carburetor and valves, a Diesel* motor has a small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude...
...Lord & Thomas firm came in. Persuading manufacturers that of all advertising agencies Lord & Thomas was the only one for them was the colossal task of Albert D. Lasker, president. To know how he went about that task, and thus to comprehend how Lord & Thomas got in a position to inject all sorts of things into your life-Palmolive soap, Quaker Oats, Lucky Strike cigarets, Kotex,* among other things-you need a picture of the ruddy-faced German-Jew who, as a rich man's 15-year-old son in Galveston, Tex., writhed at the thought of being known...
...advertisements then**). After which, I "took my pen in hand" and sent in my subscription. Since then, I have brought it to the attention of my club women and other friends, many of whom are now subscribers. Your newsmagazine satisfies a long-felt want. You have the ability to inject a human interest into the dry current event-items. You present the characters who are in the limelight as real sentient, breathing entities instead of sort of automatons. You have us acquainted, we know them, and are personally interested in them. TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak...
...Like the Communists who seek to overthrow all governments, Fascismo is endeavoring to instil that blighting philosophy among the people of every nation. Fascismo and communism have the same fangs and the same poison which it is intended to inject into the political life of our nation...
...managed to erase from his chest two gorgeous tattooed designs seen upon him when last arrested. Sepia, charcoal and cinnabar bite deep. Science has failed to discover how to blench their mordant effects. Antoine's recipe, reluctantly yielded: pour concentrated tannic acid upon the illuminated parts, inject it into the skin by close punctures with needles, rub lightly over with a crayon of silver nitrate. With the thick black scab, off comes the tattooing...