Word: rotaryism
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The tip-off came when a Shell Oil drill crew found rotary mud gushing from one of its wells. Rotary mud is forced down new holes to cool drill tips, and the Shell crew concluded that another drill had pierced its well shaft. A search quickly turned up the pirate...
Chazen and John L. Chamberlain III in the New England Journal of Medicine, power mowers act exactly like missile launchers. And a dangerous wound may be devilishly hard to find. Rotary mowers have flat cutting blades that spin at 2,400 to 4,000 r.p.m. The swift blades can hurl...
press during the 19th century. Steam-powered presses were already around; forerunners of today's giant rotary presses had appeared by the 1860s; and before the century closed. Ottmar Mergenthaler had introduced the Linotype, the first successful mechanical typesetter.
Letterpress's ability to stay abreast of the publishing demand for greater speed relegated lithography to a few humble applications, such as printing picture postcards in which the sunsets were violently pink and skies violently blue. Moreover, a new printing technique called gravure had arisen to fill a growing...
When the money began to come in by the bags from his Room at the Top, British Novelist John Braine, now 39, became less interested in the Angry Young Mania of his compatriots, joined a Yorkshire branch of the Rotary Club. But by last week, he was once again ready...