Word: pulley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accompanying me and encouraging me with every footstep, whispered to me that First Class Citizens came in at this level to proceed to the Vision of the Section Man. How joyous for these people. How privileged they are to be met by the Elevator and borne up by its Pulley, like so many little birds met by the May breeze, herald of the dawn, and carried aloft amidst the odour of ambrosia...
...Nobody has approached that mark since-except Long himself. Last April he got off a put of 65 ft. 11½ in. And one day last month, he showed up at the West Coast Relays in Fresno, limping on a bandaged left foot. "I was working out with pulley weights," he explained. "They weren't heavy enough for me, so I had a guy standing on them. The darned steel cable snapped when the weights were all the way up. They came crashing down on my foot-and drove it into the floor like it was a nail." Whereupon...
...predict the coming of the flood; a crude astronomy to further refine forecasts; systems of accounting, and, ultimately, written language to handle the stores of grain needed to tide the society over the lean months between the floods; building implements like the wedge, the lever, the screw, the pulley, the inclined plane...
...goes south to the Houses and the Business School. We followed this for a short distance--it looked just like the ear-her part of the Tunnel until we came to another smaller chamber. "Here," said Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway" is no more than a pulley-operated car with room enough for one person to lie flat on it. But it serves an important purpose: we had come to Massachusetts Avenue, where the Tunnel must squeeze between the top of the MTA subway tunnel and the street--a space of about three feet--; the only practical...
...together on the site). Railroad diesel locomotives still carry a useless "fireman." Says an International Harvester engineer in Milwaukee: "If you want to repair a machine, an electrician has to come and shut off the switch, a millwright loosens the nuts and bolts, a machine repairman will remove the pulley, the millwright removes the motor. Many times they won't work without a helper, even though there is nothing for him to do. WTe had to close many shops. Some men who weren't even skilled work ers were making $5.50 an hour...