Word: wheel
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Mercury's orbit is sharply elliptical, and its long axis wheels around the sun. The wheeling motion was too fast to fit astronomical theories, and astronomers tried to account for this speedup in ingenious ways: e.g., the influence of an undiscovered planet between the sun and Mercury. None of their explanations worked. But in 1915, Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity. Then all was -relatively- simple. According to Einstein, a body gains mass as it gains speed. When Mercury is approaching the sun on its elliptical orbit, it speeds up a lot. This makes it slightly more...
...planned and studied in his personal struggle to conquer the air. He built another helicopter. He built a frail little fixed-wing airplane. They refused to fly, too. He built still another airplane, the 52, and after days of taxiing and trying the controls he got its flimsy, bicycle-wheel undercarriage off the ground, and began trying to learn to fly. After eight minutes in the air he tried a turn; the S-2 crashed from a height of 80 feet and was completely ruined. Sikorsky limped away from the wreck to try again...
...eventually had his palaces festooned with telephones and radios, his courtyards teeming with fleets of automobiles, including 20 sand-proof, peek-proof Cadillacs, equipped with electric fans, and a mahogany-paneled trailer, which boasts a throne room. He also acquired a DC-4, built to accommodate his custom-made wheel chair...
...leak in the grease cell of a rear wheel had caused the brakes to lock, the court said, and Gaidry Motors knew about the leak, because the man who sold them the car told them about it. Thus, Gaidry Motors should have warned Hensley. In awarding $11,489.95 to Brannon, the court said: "The used-car dealer is in a better position . . . than his average customer to discover what defects might exist in any particular car ... It is not too harsh a rule to require these dealers to use reasonable care in inspecting used cars before resale to discover these...
According to police, he was found slumped over the wheel of his car in a Mellon St. garage. Police immediately summoned the Cambridge Fire Rescue Squad, which unsuccessfully attempted to revive Serhant. He was then taken to Cambridge City Hospital and from there transferred to Massachusetts General...