Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milburn, N. J., Anton Boslavage, going up hill in his 15-ton steamroller, pulled the wrong lever. The roller rolled backward down the hill, got going faster and faster, reached town at 45 m. p. h., crushed two automobiles, broke a sidewalk, knocked the corner off a building, tossed Anton Boslavage, rolled over on its side...
...Lever Bros., English soap makers (Lux, Lifebuoy), control the company which owns the English whaler now at the ice pack...
...bottom. But The Mysterious Island is too long and too complicated and its fantasy is too often choked by the plot. Good shots: the sunken Roman galley, manned with the skeletons of slaves shackled in their seats; the crew of the submarine dressing to go out by pushing a lever which drops diving suits over them; the fish-men, whose bodies are shaped like diving suits, getting ready...