Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making the cigarette safer along several other lines. One is to reduce the temperature at which a cigarette burns, now in the 800°-880° C. range, to a heat now shown to be relatively harmless-around 767.° the average temperature at which tobacco burns in a pipe. (This might be done either by adding a chemical to the tobacco, or-more likely-by changing the cut to resemble that of pipe tobacco...
Compressed air previously stored in the compartment surrounding the combustion chamber rushes through the open ports, scavenging out of it the burned gases and pushing them, still at high pressure, into the pipe that leads to the turbine. At last the increasing pressure in the bounce chambers stops the pistons and pushes them back toward the middle of the combustion chamber. Their end disks act as air pumps, raising the pressure of the air in the storage compartment. When the pistons have covered the ports, the air in the combustion chamber is compressed and heated, and the cycle starts over...
...automobiles, trucks, etc. the free piston engine has special advantages. The gasifier, its heaviest part, can be placed under the hood while the turbine can be in the rear at the end of a gas pipe. This eliminates the drive shaft that clutters low-slung cars, and it distributes the engine's weight in a desirable way. Unlike straight gas turbines, free piston engines have quick response. The man whose self-confidence is supported by making jackrabbit starts when the traffic light turns green will not suffer deflation if his dream-car of the future has free pistons...
...race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct art of tragedy in the novel. As the grand and grotesque Jock orders the pipe laments for his dead adversary, he cries to his brother officers the patriarchal clan key to the whole story: "I'm bashed the now. Oh, my babies, take me home...
...heavy chip on his provincial, radical, colonial shoulder into quite a weapon. He knew how to de-stuff shirts, e.g., he recalls that Austen Chamberlain, Britain's Foreign Secretary in the '20s, could not read very well through his celebrated monocle; that Stanley Baldwin, famed for his pipe-puffing, "probably smoked cigarettes in private...