Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are "no serious injuries," Rod Walters, who plays second row, said. "We've had a dislocated shoulder and bone chips but injuries are few and far between," he continued...
...carbon. He tried to give the impression that he came up with that idea independently. In fact, says Biographer Conot, his laboratory notebooks prove that he read and underlined reports of the experiments of Joseph Swan in England. Swan had invented an electric bulb that used a fine carbon rod...
There were technical differences between the bulbs that, Edison's partisans say, made his superior. For example, Swan's carbon rod was fairly thick, Edison's filament was thin. But a crucial difference was that Swan stopped with inventing the bulb, while Edison took what would now be called a "systems approach"; he saw that the bulb had to be only one of a whole series of inventions. To make it in the first place, he and his assistants had to produce a more complete vacuum than had ever been known before. Then they had to devise...
...Orioles, who now hold a 2-1 lead in the A.L. Championship Series, entered the bottom of the ninth with a 3-2 lead. However, with one out, Rod Carew doubled and scored the tying run when Oriole centerfielder Al Bumbry dropped a Bobby Grich line drive for a two-base error...
...Orioles led, 3-2, until the sixth inning. The Angels tied the score when Rod Carew singled and Bobby Grich doubled him home. The two teams stayed even until the tenth, when Doug DeCinces singled off of California's John Montague. Rich Dauer sacrificed DeCinces to second, but Terry Crowley flew to center for the second...