Word: counterweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organizing board said that plans would be laid down to unify all Eastern colleges in a common front "to keep American interests at home" and to organize an effective publicity campaign as a counterweight to interventionist propaganda...
...series (Speedway and De Luxe) this year with deep-skirted front fenders, a beltline chrome strip from front to back. All by itself in the ultra-low field, Willys has dropped its prices 12% to $495 to $620. Improvements: New-type soft springs with rubber-lined clips, counterweight crankshaft, automatic carburetor...
...elevator engineering is based on the simple hoist. Suspended by cables (still "ropes" to elevator men) and balanced by a counterweight, the car is drawn upward on its rails by a motor-driven drum ("sheave") at the top of the shaft. The development of this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator...
...counteract these not too encouraging facts, the advantage of a more seasoned coaching staff, one that has worked for one season together under Harvard conditions, is a heavy counterweight. When one also considers the benefits to be reaped from the excellent spring practice session, the eleven's outlook for the season is far more rosy than it was at this time last year...
With the exception of its movements toward international peace, he declared, the foreign policy of the state has become increasingly Russian and decreasingly international. This development he attributed to the rising nationalistic needs of the country. In Russian he foresees a mighty Asiatic power and a future counterweight in the balance of Europe...