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...Scheiner came in at this point and allowed two runs on a hit and a sacrifice fly. With one out, third baseman Jim Shue made a fine catch on a pop-fly and tossed the ball to second to complete a double play and get Scheiner out of the jam...
...Closet. The Instrumentation Laboratory's most important technological advance in building the jam-proof navigational system was the development of the Hermetic Integrating Gyro (HIG), a 3-in. long package containing a gyroscope spinning at 12,000 r.p.m. in an inner cylinder pivoted on virtually friction-free bearings and floated in a heavy liquid. Three HIGs -one to "memorize" each coordinate of a point'on an imaginary star line at take-off -and three accelerometers (to measure change of speed in each direction) are fixed to a gimbals-mounted, free-swinging platform unaffected by changes in the plane...
Most of the people who will jam the Brattle for the next two weeks have seen Casablanca at least once, and will see it once again not because they remember the complex plot of intrigue and love and compromised virtue, but because each actor made his character indelible...
...academic art training, dabbling in mathematics on the side, he had by 1922 already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between 1922 and 1946 he sold only three paintings. Says he: "I don't know...
...Jam-Up Job." Thompson's testimony was short and typically blunt. The oil crisis, said he, is a myth. Instead of sabotaging the oil lift by failing to boost production appreciably, Texas had done a "jam-up job," had helped make it "amazingly successful, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding." Texas was sorry that the world was angry at its actions. "We are accustomed to that," said Thompson. The facts were that the U.S. Government had not once officially demanded an increase in the allowable production set for the state's oilmen. The requests had come from Humble...