Word: stronger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...
...evacuation by a laxative or cathartic. Many persons become panicky when they miss a day and are persuaded to take more laxatives so that they can have another movement, and then continue to take them daily. . . . The continued use of drugs so diminishes the sensitiveness of the bowel that stronger and stronger stimulation is required to produce activity of the bowel...
Several days after the children were twinned Dr. Moran noticed that Clara was growing stronger, John weaker. Her red blood cells were increasing, his decreasing. As the tube stretched to 20 inches John grew sick and dizzy, finally developed acute anemia and lapsed into a coma. Giving up the graft experiment, Dr. Moran quickly cut the Siamese twins apart, found that Clara, like a vampire, had drained out John's blood through a net of capillaries which had formed on John's end of the tube. No capillaries had formed on her end of the tube...
...stories published with The Fifth Column make up an even stronger criticism of the play. These 49 tales include all those published in Hemingway's three volumes of short stories, and several new ones, add up to 495 pages of superb prose, and make the collection one of the biggest literary bargains of the year. Best of the new tales. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, sums up Hemingway's fundamental credo as well as anything he has written. In comparison with such brief and finished works which combine psychological subtlety with adventure, The Fifth Column seems...
Last year the rubber industry bought 283,750,000 lbs. of cotton for use in tires. Therefore when U.S. Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. announced last August that they had developed a much stronger tire by using rayon (TIME, Aug. 15), the makers of cotton tire cord were stirred to action. Last week the biggest one of all, Bibb Manufacturing Co. of Macon, Ga., announced the result-a cotton tire cord which it claims has 25% more tensile strength under friction heat developed at high speeds than the old cotton type. A Bibb customer simultaneously announced that tests...