Word: shaft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TURBINE SHIP will soon be plying Atlantic sea lanes for Shell Oil Co. After five years of experiments in Britain, Shell engineers have developed the first successful 5,500 h.p. gas-turbine engine to hook up to a ship's propeller-shaft, will install it in the redesigned hull of an 8,200-ton tanker for faster speed and more economical operation...
With his blazing game Snead helped to drive the nation's golf scores down from the low 705 to the low 60s. (Improved equipment-notably the steel shaft and the larger ball, and such gadgets as the power mower and the fairway sprinkler systems-helped.) Sam Snead, with his own particular style and corn-pone personality, was something new in combat golf. For years the game had been dominated by English styles. With the great American hitters-including Snead-golf had got out of its Oxford bags...
...Shaft & Spear. With that much evidence in hand. Book Dealer Keen started off on another quest: How might Shakespeare have come into possession of the Chronicle? The volume did bear one owner's name, Richard Newport, and a date, April 6, 1565. But when Keen investigated the signature, he found that it belonged to a Sir Richard Newport who had lived in Shropshire, some distance from Stratford. Nevertheless, Newport's family tree revealed some promising leads. He was related to a family named Fitton (Mary Fitton was the "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets), which in turn was related...
...observation of currents have been made at sea, the Institute has developed one remarkable instrument to predict ocean currents right in the laboratory. This apparatus consists of a large parabaloid bowl on which the outlines of the continents are raised. The bowl is set on a drive shaft that rotates it rapidly and evenly, while from four sides a battery of Kenmore vacuum cleaners blows a steady supply of "trade winds" late the hemisphere. The procedure into pour water into the bottom of the rotating parabaloid while centrifical force spreads it into an even sheet that covers the whole surface...
Under the Senator's critical eyes, the landlocked submarine on the Idaho desert (see cut) made a simulated cruise. For four days it steamed at full speed while the energy in its propeller shaft, was absorbed by a pumplike water brake. Since the "fire" in its reactor used no air, it could have been steaming hundreds of feet under the surface of the sea. If the test had been run with the real Nautilus, she could have cruised submerged from Halifax to Liverpool (2,514 nautical miles) in 96 hours. Average speed (probably conservatively stated): 26 knots...