Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relationship between the solar system in which we dwell and the rest of our universe is similar to that of a wheel placed in a sphere, stated Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory, in his recent Sigma Xi talk...
When Arnold asked aviation manufacturers to expand in 1938, he could guarantee them no funds, offer them no contracts. Aviation research was costly. To design and build just one 8-ft. wheel on the experimental B-19 cost $40,000; the cost of developing the famed Lockheed Lightning...
...drawing of Arpad in a wheel chair, holding a blood donor card: "Arpad just looks as if he's worn out from donating his thimbleful of gore to the Red Cross. Actually he's a wreck from having mulled too long over the question of what it is when people say it looks like rain. What looks like rain? People look out a window at Cramholtz & Eder's furniture store and say, 'Oh, it looks like rain.' What does-Cramholtz & Eder's store?. . . Then of course there is the inevitable answer to it looks...
...Items. More than a million officers and men wear the distinctive insignia of the A.S.C.: a gear wheel surmounted by a propeller, supported by wings. More than 300,000 civilians also labor in the A.S.C., which handles over 500,000 different items, from a jackknife...
from the chamber like wheel spokes, he thought he could expose about 3,000 times as much oil-bearing surface as a conventional well driven vertically through the 20-ft. oil-bearing layer-and presumably get 3,000 times as much...