Word: pinioning
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...York State Athletic Commission restored Dempsey to good standing. Promoter "Tex" Rickard ordered a printer to begin making tickets for the fight (top price $27.50). Patrick Mullins, meeting Fighter Dempsey, called him a liar, a cheat, offered to fight him. A humorous spectator, as he helped to pinion the spindle arms of Manager Mullins, asked loudly that Mr. Mullins be arrested on a charge of attempted suicide. Then the license committee refused Fighter Dempsey a license. Said "Tex" Rickard: "Dempsey and Tunney will fight...
...device, the work of the Bijur Motor Appliance Company of Hoboken, N. J., consists of a small 12-volt electric motor operated by a storage battery connected through a geared reduction to a Bijur automatic screw drive. On the end of the screw shaft is cut an 8-tooth pinion which meshes with a larger gear on the propellor shaft. The starter will turn over the engine at 40 to 50 r.p.m. with a consumption of 100 to 110 amperes and a maximum of 1300 foot-pounds is available on the engine crank shaft, for breaking loose a cold engine...
...rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect of his own unrivalled declamation, his fancy seemed to burst away on freshened pinion, and to pour forth lavishly the riches of his well-fraught mind." President Everett then spoke for nearly an hour, closing with the following toast...
...rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect of his own unrivalled declamation, his fancy seemed to burst away on freshened pinion, and to pour forth lavishly the riches of his well-fraught mind...
...Peace, on trembling pinion, fast would flee...