Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settle down there. "As soon as I heard that," says Meixner, "I made up my mind to get her out." Last Exit. He laid his plans with meticulous care. To get a good look at the Communist side of the Friedrichstrasse crossing point for foreigners, Meixner stalled his motor scooter near the peppermint-striped steel beam that closes the last exit in the Wall. Pretending to have engine trouble, he measured the height of the barrier, found that it was only 37½ in. from the ground. His next step was to search the car rental agencies in West Berlin...
...interpreted ideas expressed by theologian, and one U.S. Senator demanded that another yield a beautiful actress. Items: . . . Before dinner Monday night, Joe Louis and Henry Ford II held an animated conversation about the Brown Bomber's days as a 55?-an-hour assembly-line worker in the Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant back in 1933. "I told Mr. Ford," said Louis, "that I went on a leave of absence and haven't been back since." "We talked about the old 'B' building at River Rouge," said Ford. "I didn't know...
Before the suspended sphere can work as a gyroscope, almost every trace of air must be pumped out of the cavity. Then a set of coils creates a rotating magnetic field that spins the sphere like an electric motor. When the rotor reaches a speed of 30,000 r.p.m., the power is shut off and the sphere spins on for weeks or months without appreciable slowing...
Elsewhere, in sympathetic action around the Ivy League, other students met with greater success. More than 1000 Yalies poured into the streets, tossing firecrackers and flaming rolls or toilet paper near the graduate women's dorms. At Providence, hundreds of Brownies fought police, who used police dogs, motor cycles and night sticks to force the unruly crown back to the campus...
...structural unit of mental life. The acquisition of a habit consisted of developing a new pathway of discharge in the brain. Even the most complex habits were viewed as merely a chain of discharges in the nerve centers--the result of a series of sensory stimuli and motor responses comprising a system of reflex paths...