Word: manifolds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...central core. The pot is heated by the exhaust from the engine. The fuel is drawn from a standard carburetor through the inside of the pot over the surface of the warm plates, where it is converted into a dry gas and there it passes through the intake manifold into the cylinders...
Under Jesup, Dr. Osborn was in the glory of manifold activities. He searched the Rocky Mountain states for vertebrate fossils; he was making the American Museum's vertebrate collection the best in the world; he was grouping and arranging exhibits for their best educational value. Outside the Museum he was lucidly teaching biology and zoology at Columbia, scientifically reorganizing the New York Zoological Park, and deftly getting money support from municipal authorities. One vexation he had. Administrative and organization work and the preparation of his paleontological papers prevented his writing the many books whose subjects tumbled through his thoughts...
Only a month ago came the tenth anniversary of the day once announced as the marker of the end of war, but so soon to become the starting-line for post-war platitudes. Manifold the causes must be that could blow the clear flame of idealism to the smoky glare of hatred. South American border rows are a common-place, but not for long have the contestants stood up so eagerly to cleave the air with passes at each other. It is true that the little brethen of the South felt none of the reverberations of the World War except...
...guns reach twelve kilometers farther than those of our old first-line ships and fire thrice as fast per minute. The risk of its sinking has been materially reduced through a new kind of armor and a new division of bulkheads below the waterline. Its structural advantages are manifold Chief among them are, first, a great saving of weight through the use of light metals in all possible parts; second, weight saving through use of electrical method of welding its plates, doing away with all rivets. Through this alone we saved 550 tons...
...such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel. Trans-Atlantic commuters who saw its opening at the Pavilion Theatre in London were reduced to choked, ecstatic finger-tip kissing in their attempts to relate its manifold charms. Jesse Matthews, they ultimately gasped, sings "A Room with a View." . . . Tillie Losch's fluttering hands, fanciful feet . . . brilliant . . . divine...