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...plane passes over the catapult the hook engages the contraption's rope (held horizontally by the vertical arms) and pulls. That pull releases the spring, which instantly projects the container from the trough at a speed of about 45 miles per hour. Such speed prevents a destructive jerk at the pick-up plane. Shock is further reduced by absorbers within the plane. After the flyers have snaggled their package they draw it into the plane through a trap door in the bottom of the fuselage, by a winch which the propeller air stream operates. Archie W. Card and Henry Bushmeyer...
...five different ways of lifting weights. No weight can be considered "lifted" until it is as high as a man can reach. The one-or two-arm "snatch" consists of lifting it with a single motion of one or both hands. The one-or two-arm "clean and jerk" consists of lifting it with one or both hands, first to the chest, then jerking to above the head..The two-arm "military press" is complex. This consists in lifting it to the chest, taking a deep breath, counting two, then slowly raising it above the head...
...last week's contest Rohrer's record was to raise 170½ lb. in the one-arm snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
...Manger's records were 198 lb. in the two-arm military press, 264 lb. in the two-arm clean and jerk, 192½ lb. in the two-arm snatch...
...dawn of the 20th century of the Christian era that War really began to enter into its kingdom. j> "The War stopped as suddenly and as universally as it had begun. ... In a hundred laboratories, in a thousand arsenals, factories, and bureaux, men pulled themselves up with a jerk, turned from the task in which they had been absorbed. Their projects were put aside unfinished, unexecuted; but their knowledge was preserved; their data, calculations, and discoveries were hastily bundled together and docketed 'for future reference' by the War Offices in every country. ... It is in these circumstances that...