Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...followers. He damned Gandhi's dilatory tactics, pointed out how Mussolini sprang into action in 1922, demanded similar sudden decisions in the India of 1940. Then he mounted a farmer's cart drawn by two white bullocks, and as his followers carried banners (including the hammer-&-sickle), he rode in loud triumph right through the Gandhi camp. For the moment, the race was to Bose by a nose...
...human ear consists of three labyrinths: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear collects sound waves, passes them through a long canal to the eardrum. The soundwaves striking the drum set up vibrations which are transmitted first through the tiny lever bones of the middle ear-the "hammer," "anvil," and "stirrup"-then through a tissue-thin window into the inner ear. On the other side of this window is the main sound-wave receiver, a snail-like bone sunk deep in the base of the skull, with communicating nerves to the brain...
Finns still held Viipuri. Day after day the Russian hammer pounded, but the Finns did not give much though Russian sources reported that Soviet troops had captured the northern and eastern parts of the ancient port, and seemed slowly to be forging a steel ring around the deserted city...
Cities are an obstacle of great strength to advancing infantry. In a place like Viipuri, a focus, where concentration can be met with concentration, the overwhelming superiority in Russian numbers makes little immediate difference. Hammer meets steel...
...Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...