Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White's doomsday trumpet is a steel wheel 3½ inches in diameter, with 80 square teeth around its edge. It spins against a thick steel disc drilled with 80 small holes arranged in a circle to match the 80 teeth. Compressed air rushes through these holes. When the wheel revolves, its teeth chop the air into pulses; each pulse becomes a sound wave...
...Manhattan, the hero's tale of the man who jumped for the bit to stop a runaway horse was re-enacted in modern terms by a motorist named Hugh Kelly. Seeing a taxicab out of control with its driver slumped over the wheel, Kelly swung his own car in front of the cab, eased it to a stop. The cabdriver, victim of a heart attack, was dead by the time an ambulance arrived...
Lewis Douglas, in London less than six weeks as the new U.S. Ambassador, had already started a trade war. Hearing somehow that His Excellency likes to bike, 60 British manufacturers immediately tangled sprockets over who should present him with a custom-built British wheel. While they were debating the matter, a Yankee outfit (Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch) air-expressed Douglas an American bike. His diplomatic decision: "I'll find it hard to ride two bikes at once, but I shall receive both gratefully...
...Cold Room. One day last week he had his chauffeur drive him over to the Village. The River Rouge was swollen with rain. The old paddle-wheel riverboat, Suwanee, one of his relics, had sunk at her permanent anchorage. The river had submerged the lowlands, flooding the cellar of Ford's own mansion. The big house was without electricity or telephone service, heated only by open fires...
Conclusion. In Jackson, Mich., police took a good look at the Leslie High School bus, pronounced it unfit for service: poor tires, defective brakes, loose front left wheel, loose steering mechanism, cracked windshield, no muffler, no emergency brake, no tail pipe, no horn, no first...