Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American engine builders have plugged away for years on the development of the air-cooled radial engine, now close to perfection, German designers have worked at the liquid-cooled, in-line power plant. Result for the U. S.: the radial engine, with cylinders ranged like the spokes of a wheel around a short crankshaft, has grown to such size that its drag on the high-speed airplane is now of alarming proportions. (Head resistance increases as the square of the speed, e.g., if speed is tripled, drag becomes nine times as great.) Results for German designers: the in-line engine...
...figure of the pastor in the Lutheran ministerial garb behind the medieval wheel of torture, serving near the altar with the chalice, and participating in the service in a Lutheran edifice by singing from a hymnbook with uplifted, blessing arm under the glaring light falling upon him, permits only one interpretation...
...from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...
Hooke's Cells. Robert Hooke (1635-1703) probably suffered from a mild case of paranoia. A brilliant British scientist, he had many ideas, carried few of them through to solid achievement. He invented a wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks...
Marriage Revealed. Barbara Josephine Guggenheim Lawson-Johnston Wettach, 33, heiress to the Guggenheim copper millions; and Henry Obre, 33, Manhattan grinding-wheel salesman; she for the third time, he for the first; month ago, in Darien, Conn...