Word: recoils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing in it at all." Post-War conditions have bruised his optimism, but it is still unbowed. He can still look on the bright side of such threatening promises as the robot: "A being might be produced capable of tending a machine but without other ambitions. Our minds recoil from such fearful eventualities, and the laws of a Christian civilization will prevent them. But might not lopsided creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative, Winston Churchill's desk-poundings will please many a Fundamentalist in politics. But the next moment with...
When small arms-revolvers, pistols, shotguns, rifles, machine guns-are fired, the recoil of the explosion throws the weapon's muzzle upward. To overcome this upthrust. Lieut. Richard M. Cutts Jr., U. S. M. C.. devised a simple compensator. It consists of a 2-in. tube screwed to the muzzle. Top of the tube carries three holes through which the gas of explosion escapes without jolting the aim off the target, without affecting the bullet's speed or trajectory...
...Poetry & the Philosophy of Language. Hudson Maxim's older brother was Hiram Stevens Maxim (1840-1916), one-time apprentice coach builder. He tried to beat Edison to the invention of the incandescent electric light bulb, invented a machine gun which loaded and fired itself automatically by its own recoil. He also invented a smokeless powder, tried to invent an airplane, became a British subject, was knighted. "Dr. Shush'' (Hiram Percy Maxim) is his son. Another child is Mrs. George Albert Cutter of Dedham, Mass., who before the War wrote dainty dance music ("Ten Little Tonal Fancies"), operettas...
...reported last week by Western Reserve University's Professor John Paul Visscher upon his return to Cleveland from two months among the Tortugas: barnacles, shellfish which attach themselves to ship hulls and thereby impede speed, have a sense akin to the sense of smell which makes them recoil from certain chemicals. Professor Visscher's intention is to mix a chemical of disagreeable, repellent smell into the hull paint, thus prevent barnacles clinging...
...situation calls for the attention of the Anti-Saloon League and other bodies interested in the Eighteenth Amendment. It has been suspected that one important reason for the failure of enforcement of the Dry Law is the fact that the Drys themselves do not wish it enforced when the recoil would be too violent...