Word: shafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of cylinders and pistons, the Wankel engine has a single combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight (see diagram). Inside, it is a three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two gears. All three corners of the triangle stay in contact with the wall of the chamber at all times. To make the contacts gaslight, each corner is tipped with an inset metal strip that, as the drive shaft revolves, is pushed tight against the cavity's inner walls...
...volume and then decrease. When a cavity, still small but growing, passes the intake port leading to the carburetor, it draws in fuel and air. Then the cavity decreases in volume, compressing the mixture. The engine's single spark plug fires; the exploding gas pushes the rotor and shaft. At the end of the power stroke, a corner of the rotor uncovers the exhaust port, and the burned gases are swept out of the engine. Meanwhile, two other cavities have been formed and are passing through the same cycle. Maximum shaft speed is 17,000 r.p.m., but the rotor...
...Quincy House elevator system swallowed its third victim of the season last night, when Peter M. Sieglaff '62, found himself trapped between the fourth and fifth floors in the central shaft from 5 p.m. until...
...walls, indeed, arrest the eye, encircling an irregularly shaped shaft of space and supporting an inclined plane whose waist high, fragile balcony has been said to invite suicides. Annexed to the dome which houses the art is a small auditorium, whose peaceful proportions contrast dramatically with those turbulent ones of the dome itself...
...Nicklaus bothered by the prospect of eventually figuring the lie of the greens against Defending Champion Charlie Coe, 35, the dry-spoken, shaft-lean (6 ft., 150 lbs.) oil broker from Oklahoma City. Nicklaus had just the club to back up his long game off the tee: an oldfashioned, hickory-shafted putter, which he had ordered in Scotland last spring while helping Captain Coe defend the Walker Cup against the British amateurs. In the semifinals, faced with a 27-ft. putt downhill over a hump, Nicklaus precisely moved his new bat and watched the ball trickle home to eliminate California...