Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting mixture of glycerin...
...stage. The four full-length Ring operas lasted a total of 14 hours, required 18 complete changes of scene, 34 major singers, a large chorus, 80 stage hands and technicians, an orchestra of 114, ten full beards, one horse. Richard Wagner's masterpiece contains practically every theatrical trick except Eliza crossing the ice-swimming Rhine maidens, a roaring dragon, a rainbow, galloping Valkyries, a Nibelung forge going full tilt, quantities of magic fire, and, at the end, the collapse in fire and flood of a castle full of gods...
...filled bolls open, the seeds, having no lint to hold them, fall out and are lost. Texas A. & M.'s next step, therefore, is to keep the bolls from opening by further crossbreeding. Since nonopening types of cotton already exist, the scientists believe they can soon turn the trick. Such a plant should be in great demand among smart cotton planters because: 1) instead of having to be ginned, it could be cheaply threshed and harvested like any small grain; 2) there would be no cotton fibre to swell the two-year glut already on hand...
...whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being smoked in thin air and Roland Young reacting violently to invisible kicks. There are belly laughs a-plenty in the approved Hal Roach manner. Those who have been "Topper" may find that the humor of trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic idea lies in its originality. This element is necessarily lost in the sequel and, since no new angle is added, the spark is gone. In fact, the replacement of Cary Grant by a fox terrier named Atlas...
With the score standing 12 to 9 against the Crimson, it was up to Boston to make a fall in order to clinch the match. He was well on the way toward his objective when the trick knee of footballer Joe Bartolf gave was and made it necessary for him to for-felt his match for the full five points given with a fall. Bartolf gamely argued with his coach to let him continue, but he was not allowed...