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Purpose of 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...
Levin maintains that Joyce stands midway between naturalism, and symbolism, and that from this key position arises his significance. By conscientious scholarship, he demonstrates that Joyce's contribution is in development rather than in innovation. The stream of consciousness technique was not original with Joyce but he became perhaps its greater master. His universal knowledge, with which only someone of Levin's stature could cope, enable him to sum up within himself all the threads of his literary past, and his genius succeeded in spinning a web for the future, though the reader may be led astray along...
...steady golden stream, Congress continued appropriating billions upon billions for the Army & Navy. The figures, almost beyond human comprehension, were enough to make a Jap squint...
...Balkan State moving homeward over a crowded road, with 13 suitcases and a Hungarian wolfhound half the size of a Shetland pony. By some strange freak of international diplomatic courtesy the 13th suitcase and the hound had priority over fighting men equally anxious to get along in the westward stream...
...about 25% (by weight) of the coniferous trees from which most paper is made. From the vats of U.S. mills every day are drained some 12,000,000 gallons of lignin waste. Papermen find it harder to get rid of than old razor blades. It is often poured into streams-a practice now forbidden in some States because the lignin absorbs free oxygen from the water, asphyxiates fish. Where stream pollution is forbidden, lignin wastes are now bothersomely and expensively dehydrated and burned-except at a few enterprising U.S. mills...