Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Handlers of Cambridge, representing the College, will meet Yale's Spoke and Wheel Society in a rerun of last year's indecisive contest at New Haven. The 1959 race ended in a draw after all the bicycles had been wrecked early in the contest...
...Connor's associates described him correctly a week ago when he was rushing down the Mass Turnpike to reach a reception for him that started two hours earlier. Nervous because he was late, O'Connor insisted upon taking the wheel and shot down the highway. "You're going places, Tom O'Connor," said the associate. "You may crack up on the way, but you're going places...
...Lincoln convertible rolled down the hill and straight into a filling station. The arresting blonde at the wheel told a solicitous mechanic that she was having trouble. He raised the hood, looked up wildly and announced: "Lady, you don't need a mechanic, you'd better call the police. Somebody stole your motor...
Personal timekeepers (trade doubletalk for watches) do not use anything as fancy as hydrogen atoms. Since the 17th century they have depended on a delicate hairspring that keeps a balance wheel turning backward and forward at a regular rate. But last week Bulova Watch...
...flow through the coils from a battery. The energized coils react with the magnets and keep the fork vibrating at a steady 360 cycles per second, giving a musical note a little higher than F above middle C. Each vibration pushes a jewel-tipped spring against a pinhead-sized wheel whose rim has 300 microscopic ratchet teeth. The turning of this wheel moves the hands of the watch through a conventional gear train. Bulova guarantees that its electronic watch, which it calls the Accutron. will not gain or lose more than one minute per month. Price of present-model watches...