Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue British coal mines shape up into the question: How long can His Majesty's Government afford to let British mine owners run their business as their fathers ran it on a basis now so antiquated and uncoordinated that the Department of Mines has for years been urging its reorganization along modern lines...
...feet when he slips on an icy walk are the results of a deep-rooted reflex possessed by all animals, fully developed in newborn babes, unshakable by training. Now that it imperils motorcar operators, Dr. Henderson thinks it could be successfully sidetracked by installing a pedal in the shape of a wide panel almost flush with the floor boards under the driver's left foot. When the "extensor thrust" shoots both his legs out, though the right foot may jam down the accelerator, the pedal pushed by the left foot will turn off the ignition or close the carburetor...
...apparatus, however, the containers have been changed in shape from cylindrical to conical. The cone is pressed more and more tightly into a heavy external block of steel as the force from behind increases. Thus the external pressure becomes greater as the internal pressure is increased, and the cone retains the same size, allowing accurate measurements. With this apparatus routine pressures have been obtained as great as 50,000 atmospheres, and 70,000 atmospheres has occasionally been reached. 70,000 atmospheres is about 514 tons to a square inch...
...years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early as 1864 by a now forgotten Frenchman named Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron. In terms of pure theory he set down accurately at great length what ought to be done to make motion pictures. In the early 1890"s the supremely practical tinkering of Edison...
...fight against odds," Pugilist James J. Braddock was represented as declaring of his lackpenny preparation for winning the heavyweight championship. "But when it came to milk . . . well, we gave up a lot of things but never milk. I don't think I ever could have gotten in shape without it." Other witnesses to milk's athletic potency: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Grantland Rice...