Word: pulley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diaries of Lewis Carroll [TIME, March 29]: please, either tell me where I can buy a frictionless pulley, or give me the answer to the Rev. Charles Dodgson's puzzle.* NELL COUFAL Omaha ¶As the Rev. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) supplied no answer to his own puzzle, see below for one reader's solution...
...solution seems obvious. As long as the monkey merely hung onto the rope, both the monkey and the equivalent weight would be at rest: the resultant of forces exerted on the rope would be zero . . . But since we have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...
...Given a monkey and an equivalent weight, one at each end of a rope running frictionless over a pulley attached to the ceiling, what would happen if the monkey tried to climb up the rope...
...darkening her reputation in Manhattan two years ago, and then went to Europe with "a wealthy tycoon, a married man." Later, on the Continent, she picked up yet another rich companion and helped him buy champagne all over Europe. While at Deauville, she took up with an Egyptian named Pulley Bey, known then, according to the D.A., as "procurer by appointment to His Majesty King Farouk." Pulley took her home to Cairo as a tidbit for the king, but revolution prevented her meeting the girl-prone monarch...
...remove pole, using pulley; put in new pole...