Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With proper ceremony she descended, but her triumphal sweep through the bronze portals of the store was cut short by two ex-Grand Dukes, clad in full regimentals, who guarded and barred the way. And they pointed as if saluting in review, to an open elevator shaft nearby, that projected from the basement to the sidewalk...
...spell broken, we went to look at the sign over the elevator shaft. It was the newest method of retailing crown jewelry and such things that we know. It was a method so daring and courageous in spirit that no Roosevelt defeatism will ever be able to overcome it. For the sign, in careless crayon letters, read out to the clientele, "For merchandise, yell down hole...
Shoot a bullet through a propeller shaft, all the way through the hooks and crooks of the crankshaft...
There may be something to Einstein's crooked light beams; but to shoot bullets around corners, through a barrel embedded in a propeller shaft revolving several thousand times per minute-Wow! Even if the barrel grooves would turn in the same direction as the propeller the velocity of the bullet would, in order to be effective, far exceed that of the propeller revolutions; so that, even if the bullet should manage to leave the propeller shaft, the accuracy of its aim would be as cockeyed as that of the New Year's soak trying to hit the keyhole...
Reader Schrankel, accustomed to the ordinary type of aircraft engine in which the propeller shaft is also the crankshaft, has not realized that in the Hispano-Suiza moteur canon the crankshaft drives through gears an entirely separate propeller shaft. This straight shaft is hollow. The superiority of the new moteur canon lies precisely in that it does not have to be "synchronized" to fire between the spinning propeller blades, as in the old-fashioned arrangement with which Reader Schrankel is familiar, but sends a stream of shells straight out through the hollow axis of the propeller...