Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spilling, each ball had stored 750,000 volts from the whizzing ribbons. The hair of everyone in the room slowly rose and stood on end in the galvanized atmosphere. Then came a sharp report and the spectators' hair fell back into place as a bright i.500,000-volt shaft of lightning shot from one ball to the other, the overflowing positive and negative charges rushing together. Significance was that this was a steady potential, available until Dr. Van de Graaff turned off his little generators and let the whizzing ribbons come to rest. Surge (alternating) potentials had been made...
...borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack for the sake of attack is destructive and errs on the seamy side of journalism...
Near the convention stood the base of what Coin Harvey hopes some day will be his "pyramid to posterity"-an 85-ft. shaft above a hollow concrete block. Inside this chamber he proposes to deposit and seal up records and relics of the 20th Century, its literature and laws, its homely articles, its great machinery in miniature, to be opened aeons hence by archeologists searching for traces of a civilization which, Philosopher Harvey fears, will soon be lost...
...Rouge, Mich., to Edgewater, N. J. Forerunner of a big fleet of cargo carriers, S. S. Edgewater is no ordinary ship. Tidewater tars would not recognize her as she passes, propelled by silent turbines, under the low bridges of the New York State waterway. Her pilot houses drop into shaft-like wells, smoke stacks fall flush to the deck, masts are hinged and lowered by hand-all extraordinary sights on a vessel 300 ft. long, with 43 ft. beam, cargo space...
...which houses an engine on the Los Angeles and the Graf. Because her cells are filled with helium, the Akron's Maybach motors can be and are carried within the envelope, for accessibility, streamlining, speed. Each propeller-two-bladed, wooden, mounted at the end of an outrigger shaft-can be turned down to whirl in a horizontal plane (helicopter-like) as an aid to taking off and landing. (The whirling direction is reversible...