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...Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Petroleum Institute joined forces and appointed this committee to find a uniform scale by which the knock-reducing quality of fuels could be expressed. At that time they explained that knocking is not directly caused by valves or carbon but by irregular and too rapid explosion of gasoline injected into cylinders overheated by any cause?insulating carbon deposits, lime coatings in the cooling system, faulty oiling...
Before dawn on May 10, 1775, Ethan Allen, Revolutionary irregular, led 83 soldiers, mostly Green Mountain Boys of his own recruiting, across Lake Champlain. On the way Allen and Benedict Arnold wrangled profanely as to who was to command. They landed under the Grenadiers' Battery at Fort Ticonderoga. As the clear sky reddened into the day the American troopers, drawn up in three ranks, marched up to the British fort's sally port. The red-coated sentinel's fusee missed fire. The invaders pushed headlong and shouting into the walled parade ground...
...with a population of about sixteen million and the other nine million, cannot but be regarded with concern by all those nations who regard the balance of power in Europe as assured by the present arrangement. The proposed "anschluss" between Germany and Austria, which has been talked of at irregular intervals since the war, and which reached its highest point in 1928 at the famous Schubert Sanger Fest in Vienna provided an excellent example of what this sort of thing may lead to. At that time the French government became more than a little excited and by protest and noise...
High Foot was in front . That much was clear as the horses, digging inside toward the rail , formed an irregular phalanx. A few yards further on Alcibiades, the only filly in the race, passed High Foot and held the lead past the grandstand to the clubhouse turn. As they swung around the turn into the back stretch with a mile still to go, a big bay colt swung to the outside, gaining ground. It was Sande on Gallant Fox?an amazing, disdainful thing to do, for when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does...
...Washburn's well-pondered opinion that: "The irregular armies of Austria can mobilize more rapidly, with a superior armament and a greater striking power than is possessed by the lawful forces of the Republic...