Word: clockwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manner unique in criminal history," said the officers who examined him, "he had in weeks of painstaking work built a time explosive charge into a column of the Bürgerbräu cellar whose clockwork mechanism was set at six days, or 144 hours...
...planned in September and October 1938. In August 1939, the explosive case was built in. Seven days before the demonstration in the Bürgerbräu cellar he built in an explosive charge. Six days previous to the meeting Elser attempted for the first time to introduce the clockwork mechanism into the explosive chamber. He was unsuccessful...
Smooth as clockwork, with no argument, the House unanimously approved the proposals. Speaker Sleyster then ap pointed a committee of seven to confer with Federal authorities. After two swift days of unprecedented action the meeting adjourned, amid cries of "progressive," "almost revolutionary." Said Editor Morris Fishbein, tremendously delighted with the finesse and harmony of A. M. A. dele gates: "Many people will be surprised at the progressive action of the delegates. Of course I am not. I helped to work...
...schedules have been disrupted. Old Faithful spat its steam to a record height of 223 ft. But according to a U. S. Department of Interior report last month (TIME, July 4), Old Faithful was still true to its name: it still blew off for five minutes every hour, like clockwork...
...peered in at anguished men gasping for air, sweating great globules of mineral oil (which looks more sweaty than sweat). The undersea mishap that climaxes Submarine D-1 is taken in a reassuringly even stride. Under the unruffled direction of Lieut. Commander Matthews (George Brent), everything goes like clockwork. In the equalizing chamber the crew stands chattering about horseraces and San Diego girls while water creeps up to their waists, submerges the lower end of the tubular escape hatch. Presently the hatch cover is raised, a line attached to a cork buoy shoots upward to the surface...