Word: rodding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eddie Cantor, Joel McCrea and Comedienne Joan Davis had perfectly ripping luck, publicity-wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...
...Cream. Some of the props for this extravaganza were hard to find. The average pop drinker would get only 30 bottles of his favorite carbonated beverage (as compared to a prewar plenty of 50). Marshmallows were short. So was beer. Buying a fly rod called for more negotiation than ordering a pound of opium. But ice cream production was up; the U.S. would eat 850 million gallons (mostly chocolate and vanilla) as compared to 400 million in 1945. And the briefest, trickiest women's bathing suits yet appeared on window dummies and good-looking girls from coast to coast...
...small metal ball vibrating rapidly at the end of a stiff, springy rod is just as obstinate as a rotating gyroscope. It tries to keep vibrating in the same direction, no matter what its support may do. Sperry engineers wondered if a "vibrating gyroscope" might not be more efficient than the more conventional rotating type. There would be no bearings to worry about, and the ball could be kept in motion by the modern magic of electronics. So they dove deep into physics and mathematics...
...together a fascinating booklet on the subject (Water-supply Paper 416; 15?) which told the history of the dowsers, beginning with Moses, who lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (Numbers 20: 11). Few modern dowsers hoped to equal Moses, but some of them offered prizes, such as oilfields or mineral deposits, which Moses and his nomads never coveted...
...date divining rod-for oil-was announced last week by California's Union Oil Co. It was a scheme for finding oil in shallow coastal waters: a steel diving chamber, which Union Oil plans to use off the Louisiana coast this month...