Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balloon. A great new invention is going to perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome crankshaft, but by an oscillating disk. This disk, it is confidently predicted by the inventor, will transfer the power from engine to shaft with absolutely no waste of energy. Such perfect efficiency will permit a car to run a thousand miles on a single tank of gasoline. Advertising will no longer read "tires guaranteed for ten thousand miles" but "a gallon of our best will take you where you want...
...reversed. Professor Todd of Amirerst has conceived the notion of going down thirteen hundred feet in a mine, from which point of vantage he expects to get a peep at our sister planet, as it were, unawares. By rotating a dish of mercury, he plans to convert the mine shaft into a huge-reflecting telescope. This done, no "final close-up" on the silver screen ever betrayed an unsuspecting complexion more completely than such a gigantic instrument would reveal the face of our mysterious relative. No sewing circle, tearing asunder some absent member, can compare with our astronomical gossips, gathered...
...Maughan, who has already gained a reputation by his knack for clever dialogue surpasses himself in "Lady Frederick." Shaft after shaft of brilliant wit, always pertinent, is directed at the audience. A few examples will suffice...
...Shannon Post of the American Legion, will conduct the French general and his party to Soldiers Field, where picked men of the Artillery Unit, under the direction of Major R.C.F. Goetz, will fire a salute in the visitor's honor. The ceremony will take place near the Memorial Shaft in front of the Locker Building. The rest of the afternoon will be spent in watching the first football team practice and in visits to the various buildings of the University...