Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Austrians screamed "We See Our Leader!'', "One Führer, One Reich!" Many went down on their knees as the Mercedes passed, and after it had gone by some groveled in Hitler's wheel tracks, scooping up handfuls of the Austrian earth into which had bitten the sharp treads of his German tires...
...poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics by moving her face against lipsticks and powderpuffs. Her parents took her to the cinema in her wheel chair...
...surrounded by a crowd of gamblers, many of whom placed heavy stakes on the red, figuring that the chances against the black turning up one more time were billions to one. However, since what has occurred before can have no conceivable effect on any given spin of the wheel, the chances against the black turning up once more at any stage of the tun were exactly the same as at any other time-i.e., 19 to 18, or a little more than even.* The failure of the frantic red-players to realize this gave the house a profit...
...flag of orange, white and dark green-with a spinning wheel rampant on the white-is the banner of the Indian National Congress, the party name of Mahatma Gandhi's followers. Last year the 3,000,000 enrolled, dues-paying members of the party resolved that they must have a physical nucleus, a permanent Congress City of their own at some place completely away from British-dominated cities. Last week this great constructive dream of a multitude of squabbling politicians came to a physical culmination...
...mechanism is simple-a unit of rotating blades suspended beneath a two-wheel cart at right angles to the row. Each blade backs into the ground heel first as the machine trundles overhead, comes out point last, leaving the loose dirt in the hole but removing the surplus seedlings. Last year Dixie Cultivator Corp. sold 403 one-row choppers at $157.50 each. In 1938 it will turn out 2,500 machines, 60% of the two-row type...