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...innovations were baffling even to his few admirers-"veins of pure gold imbedded in masses of unpracticable quartz," according to Coventry Patmore. Hopkins introduced new rhythms, perceptible to the ear but dizzying to the eye. He coined words ("inscape," "instress," "scapish"); isolated prepositions ("What life half lifts the latch of, What hell stalks towards the snatch of"); left out connectives ("Save my hero, O Hero [that] savest"). Though sensory details delighted him ("skies of couple color, as a brinded cow"), his principal passion was the relation of man and nature...
...from the Door Latch. About 1922 the U.S. electrical industry created a byproduct of its work with tungsten: bearings pressed from copper and iron alloys. Their sponginess was their advantage: the fine continuous pores (up to 40% by volume) can absorb oil, exude it by capillary action as needed. Often they require no further oiling after impregnation; they can be sealed into machinery (e.g., household refrigerators) and forgotten. By 1932 "oil-less" bearings were used for many purposes in automobiles and were in time found to outlive the rest of the machine. Billions of such bearings...
About five years ago Chrysler turned to powder metallurgy to make a door-latch part which would be 1) self-oiling, like a bearing, 2) quieter than clangy solid metal. Besides offering these advantages, this part surprised engineers by being easier and cheaper to make from powder than by former methods. From this and similar pressed parts a wave of interest in powder metallurgy at once swept U.S. industry. First powdered-metal automotive gear appeared in the oil pump of the 1940 Oldsmobile, and this year more new parts have been made from powders...
...radio listeners heard Churchill's reply: "What touches me most in this ceremony is that sense of kinship and of unity which I feel exists between us this afternoon. . . . Here at least in my mother's birth city of Rochester, I hold a latch-key to American hearts. . . . What is the explanation of the enslavement of Europe by the German Nazi regime? . . . There was no unity. . . . The nations were pulled down one by one. ... Is this tragedy to repeat itself once more? Ah, no. . . . United we stand, divided we fall...
Because in speaking for themselves they spoke for most Americans, their countrymen revered the New England giants, even when age had left them like a range of extinct peaks on a receding horizon. Critic William Winter walked in the moonlight to touch the latch of Longfellow's gate. Others traveled to Concord to gaze at Emerson's woodpile. Young William Dean Howells walked up Lowell's path with palpitating heart...