Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, a man of three score years and one packed his bags last week and journeyed in to London. One more honor was to be thrust upon him. Once more he must don garments in which he seems a bent and spectacled waiter whose mustaches droop. When he should stand up before the Royal Society of Literature to receive its gold medal, many a critical eye would be upon him. Dean Inge would certainly make some acidulous remark next day. Lord Darling might crack a senile quip upon the spot. And Louis Raemaekers would be there...
...cylinder Bryan (to use our apostle's own system of concocting words) advocate an Inquisition or merely the inauguration of the Yale system of compulsory chapel? It is to be hoped that the day of religious persecution has long since gone the way of the Dodo. A religion militantly thrust upon one is no religion...
...lately completed pioneer cruise with a cargo of stone from Hamburg to Manhattan via the Canary Islands. She had used but 30% of the fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told also of motor-driven water-pumps, lighting plants and even airships of the future...
...than all except Muyll, which is in about the same latitude. We know by looking at its architecture that Okop is the oldest. Its walls are thicker, the whole construction of its buildings is heavier. When the Mayas first began to build they knew little about the laws governing thrust and strain. Their earliest two-story buildings have the second story set behind the first on a solid mass of masonry. They dared not put one room directly above another. Later they learned how to do this and the development of their skill can be traced through buildings of successive...
...Angeles. Slowly, cautiously, like the groundhog in February, the great Los Angeles thrust her monstrous grey stern-snout out of the hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. Sniffs of the wind augured well for several days aloft. The motors roared and rumbled, the huge celestial torpedo pushed up for her first extended trip since last July. Heading southeast, Captain George W. Steele Jr. guided her out over Barnegat Bay, then down to Atlantic City and to Cape May through bumpy air seas. Over Barnegat Lighthouse some internal wires had snapped; a waterline had burst, from one of the steam-condensers...