Word: smokelessly
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...Sunday papers. A beamy, 35-foot Navy cutter was moving steadily by, showing neither smoke nor sail and emitting a "put-put-put" altogether too faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...
...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...
Candidates for the Gun Club should report at a smokeless smoker in the Joe Knowles Hall with as little noise as possible today between...
Besides its strictly theoretical importance, this science has a very practical side. Of late Berthollot has been working for the French government in applying the principles of the science to the study of explosives. Much valuable knowledge has thus been obtained about smokeless powder, dynamite, etc. Also at the government torpedo station at Newport in this country this science has been used in studying explosives...