Word: levering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copyright law protects BBC television programs from being exhibited to paying audiences. So, to have something to show his incipient spectators, Mr. Sagall will have to use his revolutionary new projection process as a lever either to force BBC to supply programs or to induce Parliament to license an independent program service...
...bullet which jammed the machine's work before it had gone 11 inches. An accurate try of Richard G. Labovitz '38, blew his target right off its track. However, the star performance was Hall's Rather than hopelessly disembowel the toy, thus rendering it useless, he struck the starting lever with his bullet, thereby stopping the tank, uninjured...
...wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died hard. Nine times the pig staggered to its feet and collapsed. The ninth...
...device works something like a combination typewriter and adding machine. When a number turns up on the roulette wheel, the operator spins a knob on the machine to that number. This rotates into position a drum of type carrying all of the number's group affiliations. Then a lever is pressed and the data are printed on a roll of paper, visible beneath a mica window...
Clever Mr. Lever countered with "Vote for Lever and dam the flowing tide." Lever won the election...