Word: skew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some such emotion has crept into the work of most biographers of Horatio Nelson, England's No. 1 naval hero. Even the U.S.'s precise, levelheaded Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan allowed the legend of Nelson to skew up the accuracy of his portrait. British Admiral Sir W. M. James (who spent 18 months during World...
...this mechanism in planes (and submarines) is to overcome torque or sideways twist created when 1) the air's resistance to the rotating screw makes the engine tend to rotate the plane itself, 2) the whirling air stream behind the propeller hits the lifting surfaces at a skew angle. Torque must be counteracted by ailerons and rudder, especially in small planes whose bodies-like those of small submarines-do not in themselves provide enough stable ruddering...
...give it a trade name and produce it in quantity, he ran away from the field in 1855 by pouring from his own furnace the first crucible saw steel ever cast in the U. S. From pictures of old Roman and Egyptian saws he designed, in 1874, the first skew-backed (curved) carpenter's handsaw, which is still Disston's No. 1 specialty and best seller-"The saw most carpenters...