Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President proceeded to Denver, to Alaska and then to California where he died in a hotel, a month after being in the wheat field. . . . Last week, Hutchinson, assisted by some 300 newspaper editors on their way to a convention in Los Angeles, dedicated in the same wheatfield a shaft of granite, bought with schoolchildren's pennies, to record for the granite's lifetime that Hutchinson had well loved Mr. Harding, who had once reaped a fraction of that field...
...Foshag is making the first scientific survey of the world's richest silver mines, in Mexico. Workings begun centuries ago by the Toltecs still produce voluminously. At Guanajuato, 12 hours from Mexico City, Dr. Foshag will visit the huge Veta Madre (Mother Vein) where the work shaft is 1,700 ft. deep and 30 in diameter through solid rock. He will see the magnificent Cathedral of Chihuahua, built in the 18th Century by two escaped convicts who, having stumbled upon the mines now called for Santa Eulalia, promised the edifice to a priest if he would intercede for them...
Carefully calculating the height of the crosspiece, Sabin Carr of Yale walked down the cinder path, turned, began trotting with his bamboo shaft poised like a phalanx spearman's, ran faster, vaulted boltlike into the air, hung suspended for an instant, writhed a little and fell. He cleared at 13 ft. 2 in., another record...
...British Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hood Hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bonnet Running boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Platform steps Fenders . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mudguards or wings Windshield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..Windscreen Headlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .Headlamp Generator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dynamo Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accumulator or battery Gasket. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Washer Truck . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Lorry Instrument board. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Facia board Transmission. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Gearbox Emergency brake. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hand brake Choke . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .Strangler Sedan. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . Saloon Propeller shaft . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . Cardan shaft Countershaft. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Layshaft Crank. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .Starting handle Connecting rod bearing. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .Big end Gasoline. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Petrol Duco (as general term). . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . Cellulose Gear shift . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Change speed lever Spark plug . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sparking plug Oil pan. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sump
...days it required only a big strong athlete with hands and wrists powerful enough to hold onto the wooden shaft, in order to get a good throw. Today a competitor weighing no less than 165 pounds has a chance for points in competition. Comparatively speaking the wooden handle was a great handicap...