Word: button
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week) and come out with a couple of dollars. I just couldn't seem to keep from giving it." Witness Lewis complained that Brother Tom said the money was going to be used for noble purposes-a mammoth choir loft to be raised and lowered by push button, a glass-enclosed baptistery similarly operated, a big electric Escalator running from nave to altar. But none of these things materialized. Mrs. Freeda Borchardt, once the Pattens' cleaning woman, explained forlornly that she and her husband had coughed up $2,800 after Brother Tom referred to her during a church...
...Zealand-born Engineer Frank Bell, who has worked four years on the Whizzard, pressed the starter button. The turbine gave a puff of kerosene-scented smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...
Currently on a two-week leave of absence from the University, Button went through a rigorous training routine at Lake Placid before flying to England; for the next three days he will be competing in Paris for the Grand Prix de France, a new prize, and then will return to Cambridge for a 9 A.M. class Monday morning...
...Lowell House sophomore has been more outstanding in the field of improvised, so-called "free" skating than in the compulsory events. It is to this phase of the sport which he has brought so many new elements, among them the flying camel jump, better known now as the "Button" camel (see picture...
...latest triumph Button introduced two intricate series of jumps off one foot, thought to be the fastest movements a human can make. With six as the best possible mark, he never failed to score 5.7 in his "free" events. Judge Harry Meistrup gave him the only perfect performance on execution given in the three-day competition...