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Hands cupped, legs working in piston fashion, a pair of girl twins, whose age totals 28, propelled their monotonous way through the murky waters of lower New York Bay last week. At Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again...
...tempers. Tackling has been called the most valued weapon of a player's arma ment. In games, tackling is the swift answer to an enemy chal lenge; fraught with an emotional energy that softens, psychologically the bumps. In practice, it is a dull business hammering with the shoulders the piston hammers of another man's knees...
...than 100 H. P.-92 H. P. was the conservative figure mentioned in advertising when the car was announced more than one year ago. Your footnote would have been entirely correct had it stated that the Stutz motor is the most powerful stock car motor "per cubic inch of piston displacement" in the United States. Its displacement...
...Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp), Mrs. Coolidge filmed the natives with her cinema machine...
...advantage of Diesel motors over gasoline motors in automobiles would be their simplicity of structure and absence of vibration. Instead of a carburetor and valves, a Diesel* motor has a small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude...