Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether it is performed by pacts or by a ring of Navy steel, what the U. S. hopes to accomplish at Lima is to show itself so Good a Neighbor that 120,000,000 Latin Americans will eschew the ideas and products of neighbors which the Good Neighbor wants to keep out. On the eve of this attempt, currents and undercurrents showed the progress of the neighborly race...
Just before the stroke of twelve one night last week, squadrons of steel-helmeted, fully-armed troops and blue-caped policemen marched from their barracks to strategic spots in Paris and its suburbs. A battalion of mounted machine gunners clattered through the deserted streets to the Communist-populated workers' suburbs of Saint-Denis and Belleville, where they took up positions around the huge gas tanks, water reservoirs and electric plants which supply the capital. Bands of Mobile Guards and policemen began to patrol the Paris streets. An infantry company clumped to the City Hall, nine truckloads of troops surrounded...
Chief Weymouth and his lieutenants made several contributions to engineering science. They designed special canal grading and lining machines. They proved the efficacy of curved steel I-beams for tunnel supports. And they learned how to weld steel pipe an inch thick...
...Schindler gastroscope is over two feet long. The upper half of the tube is steel and connects with the lower half which is rubber lined with a metal coil. At the lower end there is a flexible guide to ease the tube's passage, a small light and a prism which protrude on one side. Inside the tube, one above the other, are set more than 40 lenses. No matter which way the tube is bent within the patient, the lenses diffract the image at the bottom of the tube so that the physician has a clear view...
...specimen of rock under test is placed in a thick steel cylinder. An hydraulic confining pressure is applied through a liquid, or at very high pressures through lead. The highest confining pressure used are about 300,000 pounds per square inch. In addition, a direct, differential pressure is exerted on the specimen by a steel piston. Different pressure used attain more than 1.500,000 pounds per square inch...