Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, the Engle-Stanko spun wildly on the turn into the straightaway, and the right front wheel locked into the guard rail. The car rode the rail for about 100 feet, plunged under a footbridge and hurtled into a screaming group of spectators. Reid was decapitated; two spectators and a track guard were killed; 48 were hospitalized, nine of them seriously injured. Said Charlie Engle sadly: "I could see it coming. Reid was just trying too hard. That's all there is to it. He tried too hard...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible, dirt-proof fabric (TIME, April...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible, dirt-proof fabric (TIME, April...
...long run, Lancashire faces permanent decline. Its fine cloth, which once clothed half of Asia, can no longer compete in price with Japanese and Indian cloth spun by cheaper labor. The world's younger nations, e.g., Argentina and Pakistan, have built their own mills, and buy less and less from Britain. Short time in Bolton will never be far away...
...Blade. Dr. E. F. Fullam of General Electric Co. told about a slicing machine that apparently does its work without even touching the material that it slices. The machine has a small circular blade that is spun by an electric motor at 65,000 r.p.m. Its rim, moving faster than sound, forms a cutting edge of compressed air much sharper than a razor. Hard metals can be sliced into films two-millionths of an inch thick. Since the blade does not get dull, Dr. Fullam believes that it never touches the work...