Word: lever
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oils. Last week buttery oil and sudsy oil flowed together in a merger of a great margarine company and a great soap company. The margarine company was Margarine Unie, a Dutch concern which, with its British affiliate, Margarine Union, is Europe's largest margarine producer. The soap company was Lever Bros., which, with some 200 associated companies, is world's largest soap maker. Inasmuch as both Margarine Union and Lever Bros, control their sources of raw materials and also operate chain store systems through which their finished products reach the consumer, the merger represented one of the largest and most...
...gear shift is a handgrip extending from the cowl instead of a lever from the floor...
Sleep: "Only for a minute nod your head "Close your eyes to the steering lever only for a little "Your hand will remain awake...
...entirely different from machines we are accustomed to see. It consists of a tray of about 500 Chinese characters, a printed sheet or indicator showing the position of the various characters in the tray, a pointer, and the customary platen mechanism. The pointer is attached by a system of levers to the type tray; and when the former is brought over a desired character on the indicator, the corresponding letter on the type tray is brought beneath a small receptacle open at the bottom, but covered at the top by a rubber ball. A lever is pressed, suction is created...
...history, an opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the Municipal Theatre and the fire inspector was making his round 15 minutes before curtain time. He tried this exit, examined that extinguisher. He touched a wrong lever and stage rain fell, beat upon the scenery until all was ruined, no performance possible...