Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that as the broom works, it sweeps the snow in the air and the wind blows it in the cab, and the result is that eight hours of that continuous work, you'll have icicles running down your eyes and nose and your hands are frozen to that wheel, and that's what causes the greatest amount of sick rates. The sick rate is terrifically high in the City of New York in the Department of Sanitation. . . . On illness per hundred, Department of Sanitation...
...Superfortress is powered by Wright 2,000-h.p. engines, has three-bladed propellers, cruises at about 250 m.p.h. at 25,000 ft. Flight says "it retains the general features of the Fortress, but it has a tricycle landing gear with double tires on each wheel. It needs them. Flight puts the fully loaded weight of the B-29 at between 50 and 60 tons-about twice the weight of a Fortress or British Lancaster...
...Suddenly we saw a ragged edge, nosed up, and then boom!-the damned cloud had a rock in it. We thought that was the end and expected to spin. Instead we gained a little altitude. . . . The hydraulic system was out and we discovered a wheel was gone. . . . Then we found we had some control and [CoPilot Lieut. Cecil] Gibson agreed he was game to try to land. It took all our strength, both fighting all the way, to bring her down. . . . We knew a lot of guys in China would be mighty disappointed if the mail was lost...
...wheel and the sphere have the same center, but the sphere is considerably larger. The diameter of the wheel is 10,000 light years, while that of the sphere is well over 100,000. A light year is equal to 6,000,000,000,000 miles...
...wheel is spiral rather than planar in shape. Its more well-known name is that of the Milky Way. The measurements of its various dimensions are highly accurate. Those of the sphere are far less certain since it is difficult to calculate the precise outer limit of the sphere. This is due to the thinning out of the stars along its outer fringes...