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...week's end the Duchess suffered a slight setback, after she was moved from the hospital to the Miami-Biltmore Hotel. The Southern Cross had developed some bearing trouble in her port propeller shaft. Pookie had a touch of eczema. But the Windsors expected that everything would be all right for their return this week to Nassau. The happy, busy Duke promised to come back after the first of the year for another, longer visit...
...Wright's plan for the Johnson Wax plant at Racine, Wis. in 1938 similarly set the Wisconsin State Industrial Commission on its ear. Its columns were neither pillars nor posts but tall stem forms, tapering from a concrete disk 20 ft. in diameter at the top to a shaft 8 in. thick at the floor. By ordinary reckoning, these slenderizing pencils would take about two tons weight each where they were called on to support twelve. In an official test the column held up 60 tons...
Cleverly chosen artificialities, collectively representing the tinsel world of both men and peacocks, form the main body of "Concertino for the Death of a Favorite Peacock," also by Abrahams. The poem propels a telling shaft at a world crowded with forests of obelisks, pilasters, and Byzantine roadhouses...
...Mormons never forgot their holy places. Finally they managed to buy back from unbelievers the farms of Joseph Smith, Martin Harris (who mortgaged his house to pay for the first printing* of the Book of Mormon) and Hill Cumorah itself. Five years ago Mormons erected a granite shaft on Hill Cumorah, topped it with a large statue of Moroni. On the slopes of the hill each summer they put on a pageant...
Professor Kirsten's cycloidal propeller, as used for boats, has four to eight parallel blades projecting vertically downward, like fingers from a revolving hand. Driven by a vertical shaft the blades on one side move backward while those on the other move forward. Propulsion is obtained by a rhythmical automatic shift in the pitch of the blades so that those moving backward push flatwise against the water, while those moving forward are "feathered" to slip sidewise through it with little resistance. One advantage of this arrangement is that quick stops and reverses can be accomplished without altering the speed...