Word: pulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every floor with the braking mechanism become effective only when a button has been pushed for a certain floor. Of this type are the Otis elevators (capable...
Young Patient Martha Berger sniffed, screamed, rolled off the table, scrambled from the room. Mrs. Grace Fusco, 48, X-ray assistant, whose back had been turned, noticed the commotion, grabbed Frank Brown's arm to pull him from the grip of the electricity. The 75,000 volts knocked her across the room. She staggered back for another tug. The man thought he shook his head to warn her away. But his muscles were too tense to do that. Mrs. Fusco saw only his popping eyes, grabbed again, was again knocked away...
...Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will-o'-the-wisp short cut to the Orient; Parliament had a standing reward of ?20,000 to the lucky discoverer. By personality and pull Rogers got the post of Governor of Michilimackinac (now Mackinaw, Mich.), went off to his new adventure in high feather, taking Langdon along to paint his fill of Indians. Still-beauteous Elizabeth went too, but Langdon found his heart was now proof against her. Besides, he had a ward...
...where, but a few minutes before, I myself had been swimming, I'd like very much to know the preferred procedure when the third-time-that-charms comes along. I have heard all about how you subdue such tough customers as lions, alligators, rattlesnakes and such-you pull their jaws apart till they snap, or holding them by the tail, you crack them like a whip and their head flies off. But what to do when suddenly confronted by a shark, or barracuda ? Should one set up a tremendous splashing and threshing about, and thus attempt to frighten...
Professor Viehoever is as interesting as Daphnia. He is a terror to his family, who never know what noisome creature or substance he may pull from his pockets. The U. S. entered the War a few weeks before he, a German, could become naturalized. Nevertheless, he continued to work for the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry at the University of Illinois. Back in Washington, he composed The Doughboys March, which the U. S. Army band at Fort Washington, Md., near where he has a farm and summer home, still plays. Professor Viehoever's laboratory, where a pet white kitten...