Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though the spirit was daring, the flesh was weak. Some of them rode in wheel chairs. It looked like their last reunion. Spain will be fortunate if, in 2013, such a reunion can be held on the battlefield of Teruel-with Fascism and Communism as well forgotten as are slavery and abolition...
...concerned their place of origin. He once believed they came from the remotest depths of space beyond the Milky Way, which is the huge galaxy of stars to which the sun and its planets inconspicuously belong. The disc-shaped Milky Way appears to be slowly rotating like an enormous wheel. Therefore, if the rays come from outside the galaxy, whichever side of Earth happens to be facing the direction of rotation should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops...
...Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...saltier of the Oslofjord's visitors were interested by her duplex bridge, with all the essential instruments of the enclosed lower portion duplicated on a hurricane bridge above. On the bridge no great spoked wheel governs the Oslofjord's, helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...
...Smith took off from Lympne, Kent, in a Lockheed-Altair, Lady Southern Cross, to break the England-Australia record. He said it would be his last flight before settling down to aviation administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon botanists, after...