Word: looms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chancellor Hitler gave authority "to issue decrees and general administrative instructions" to "all administrative organs, including the highest Reich administration, all offices of the Party and its subordinate organizations or associated institutions." This was delegating so much power to Göring that his enormous bulk seemed almost to loom over small Hitler, but the mystic Führer has long toyed with notions of betaking himself upward to a status in which his title of Leader would be as Olympian and detached from responsibility for details as that of Emperor...
...life. It is the same in a great city as it is on the farm, the daily routine whether in an office, in a tall building or plowing a 40-acre field, fighting chinch bugs or grasshoppers, or going down in a mine to get ore, standing at a loom, sweating at a forge, or working in a forest. All these are real. No falsetto here. No emotional stuff-but hard reality. . . . Landon has always touched reality. He has always faced life at first hand. He is no theorist, and the Lord be praised, he is no orator...
Fifty years ago last week, in the Park Row composing room of the New York Tribune, a bearded young German machinist named Ottmar Mergenthaler sat at an odd machine which looked like a cross between a power loom and a punch press. Beside him stood the Tribune's Editor Whitelaw Reid. As Ottmar Mergenthaler lightly tapped out letters on a keyboard before him, Mr. Reid heard the tinkling of brass type matrices falling into place. The rack of matrices was shunted to a bubbling pot of lead inside the machine. As Editor Reid looked on, Machinist Mergenthaler touched...
...sheet and the contact a weak electric current is passed. Wherever the contact is separated from the copper by the insulated design the current is broken. This intermittent current is sent to an amplifier, relayed thence to a line of electromagnets, each of which controls a needle in the loom. Thus, for every cross-section of the design, the proper needles are lifted from their positions. After every three sweeps (for a three-color design) of the contact the cylinder carrying the copper sheet rotates a notch. In effect the robot electrically scans the design line by line, much...
...near-sighted eyes of posterity, historical figures are apt to loom larger and more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to his Mars. But not to the microscopic eye of Biographer Marjorie Bowen* whose tale is enough to turn a true-blue Briton purple or green, set Nelson himself whirling on his Trafalgar column...