Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
Next Lap, Three new things in the automobile world were visible on 1934's New Year's Day: 1) slightly higher prices for the lowest priced cars to offset, in part, the rising cost of automobile materials; 2) independent front wheel suspension ("knees")-old to Europe-to make cars of General Motors, Chrysler and others "easier riding"; 3) streamlining in a big way-Walter Chrysler's bid to claim the distinction that he made the buggy a bugaboo. A few years ago a 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas named Byron Cecil Foy began...
...starry April night in 1912 Robert Hitchens stood at the wheel of the Titanic, world's biggest, newest, fastest ocean liner, guiding her at full speed on her maiden voyage through the Newfoundland ice fields. Suddenly above the far-off music of the ship's orchestra, Helmsman Hitchens felt a scrape of ice on steel. Three hours later the S. S. Titanic slid to the bottom. Helmsman Hitchens was one of some 300 men who with about 400 women and children got away in lifeboats from the greatest marine disaster in history...
...squabbled over a girl. The race press-agents diligently nurtured their feud, even persuaded them to pose for newspictures, shaking fists at each other. Once during last week's race Letourner took a punch at Debaets for cutting in front of him. Debaets pulled the Frenchman off his wheel and both men went sprawling. Letourner was fined $25. Debaets' partner, Norman Hill, a handsome youngster from San Jose, Calif., is all-around bicycle champion...
...giant electrostatic generator (TIME, March 7, 1932). There they joined newsmen and M. I. T. engineers and miscellaneous scientists. In the gloom loomed the generator- two gleaming 15-ft. hollow aluminum balls, each atop a 25-ft. column of textolite, each column mounted on a massive four-wheel truck. The two trucks were on a single track which ran the length of the hangar and beyond. Small manholes opened into both aluminum balls which were rigged up inside as compact laboratories...