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Word: moving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of cylinders and pistons, the Wankel engine has a single combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight (see diagram). Inside, it is a three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two gears. All three corners of the triangle stay in contact with the wall of the chamber at all times. To make the contacts gaslight, each corner is tipped with an inset metal strip that, as the drive shaft revolves, is pushed tight against the cavity's inner walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Power Without Pistons | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...garter belt have not been enough to protect Patty from assorted cuts, bruises and a chipped tooth. Similar padding from ankle to bustle have not saved Anne from equally painful accidents. "The impulse during rehearsal," says Director Arthur Penn, "was to set the fight scene, to plan every move and response." But then he saw his stars at work. Once Actress Bancroft had persuaded Patty not to hold back ("Naw! You come on and hit me!"), the scrap quickly developed into impromptu reality, a little different every night. The big fight has run as briefly as 8 minutes 10 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Who Is Stanislavsky? | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...Brothers Cahaly, two more victims of the new ten-story Health Center, face their April eviction date "with no grudge or malice," for when they moved their grocery business into 79 Mt. Auburn St. nine years ago they knew they might have to move out on two months notice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Health Center to Open in Fall of '61 In Spite of Last Minute Alterations | 12/18/1959 | See Source »

Recently, however, the Department of Commerce announced plans to publish a new small table. This move shows that the government is actually interested in the analysis, and Leontief's predictions of wider U. S. government use in the future seem nearer fulfillment...

Author: By Soma S. Golden, | Title: Loentief Relates Economic Theory to Fact | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

...play, Juniper observes the faith he has re-awakened and says, "Man still goes on believing that tomorrow will be better. This faith is the greatest miracle of all--this is today's miracle, and tomorrow's, and tomorrow's." Patrick's writing is able to move this strongly, and yet it can at other times bring on riotous laughter. It is principally because of his considerable skill that the play goes deeper than the conventional story line...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Juniper and the Pagans | 12/15/1959 | See Source »

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