Word: thrustings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stagnation, Earth does not appear to be growing any older. The forces which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted her crust seem to continue with unabated vigor. The planet trembles almost continuously, as some 8,000 earthquakes a year bear witness. Islands sink out of sight in the sea, and new ones emerge. Rain and wind level old mountains; young ones are thrust up on the shoulders of mysterious forces below. Whence comes all this energy...
...Moines, visiting Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring with their father, Curtis Bean Dall, Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis Roosevelt ("Buzzie") Dall asked their host to help them do a trick. Governor Herring thrust his hand through the hinge crack of an open door, had a large glass of water placed between his fingers. Unable to pull his hand out without dropping the glass, Governor Herring held it for several minutes while the Dall children whooped & hollered with delight. Then the Governor's 5-year-old grandson took the glass from his flustered grandfather...
...Hopson left that session one of Senator Black's servers thrust into his hands a subpena ordering him to appear instanter before the Senate Committee. The Senate Committee waited for him all afternoon but he did not appear. That night Sergeant Jurney made the search which ended so surprisingly at the Shoreham. Next day Representative O'Connor and Senator Black were again at swords' points, for it turned out that Mr. Hopson had a good excuse for not appearing before the Senate on the previous afternoon : the House Committee had had him testifying at a secret session. If the Senate...
...swank Shoreham Hotel. Their occupants piled out, raced up the steps. Prize of the chase was big black headlines for either Chairman O'Connor of the House Lobby Investigating Committee or Chairman Black of the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee, depending on which one's agents first thrust a subpoena into the hands of Howard Colwell ("Scarlet Pimpernel") Hopson, missing master of Associated Gas & Electric Co. (TIME, July...
...Timkens were among the first to discover the advantages of the roller bearing over the ball bearing. Their ace product today is the Timken tapered roller bearing (i.e. larger at one end than at the other). This simple device is of prime importance to automobiles where radial and thrust loads are encountered simultaneously in road curves, twists and shocks. Timken tapered roller bearings are standard equipment on nearly every car except those of General Motors which has its own New Departure and Hyatt bearings. Timken also makes bearings for other industrial uses. Its most significant recent milestone was the locomotive...