Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with air and an electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked, by the spontaneous combustion of dust accumulated in the shaft. His major problem now is elimination of the unburned residue after each explosion. He believes waste dusts from mills and factories may some day drive multicylindered motor cars...
...plagued the British Admiralty to take up his steam "turbine" and try it in driving battleships. The Government skeptically observed the plans for a machine which applied the energy of a jet of steam impinging upon the blades or vanes of a wheel to produce the rotation of a shaft to which the wheel was fitted. The Government shook its head and Engineer Parsons returned to Scotland, not unruffled. He had discovered the turbine principle a decade before, had perfected it for small units, was convinced it could drive a ship if built big enough...
...Haldane, popular Cambridge biological litterateur, expressed (in picturesque terms) the well known fact that the strength of an organism is not constant with its bulk. Said he: "A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash . . . Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldly bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal...
What was the interest in your announcement in the issue of July 20, Page 1, that Jervis, bodyguard of the President, fell into an elevator shaft and dropped five feet with a crash without the information that the President was following close behind him and was warned of the danger...
...desirable position for the host in England. A jog is indicated in everyone's life. Clouds follow the breeze, each basker having a selfish reaction to this jog. Thunderheads follow clouds, each basker lying to himself about his selfish reaction. A storm bursts, with rumblings of anger, shaft of malice, gales of recrimination, deluges of tears. The sun reappears when, for a motive of her own, a delicious minor character-the spinster sister of the durable male friend -shoehorns some one else into the host's desirable London position. As basking is resumed, it is observed that "every...