Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...These things balance up. Give us time to catch up with our schedule (game have to be scheduled two and three years in advance) and the pendulum of victories will swing...
...explain the great mystery of the enormous wealth of the times came first the apologists: they claimed that the great industrialists were enriching the country as a whole and should therefore be encouraged by all and adequately recompensed for their great work. The literary pendulum then swung to the other extreme with the muckrakers, who exposed the corruption and evils of the business world and ascribed greedy motives to all men of wealth...
Other new scientific notes: ¶ A surveying gadget built into two small boxes mounted on a trailer (to be pulled by a car or jeep), has been developed by the Sun Oil Co. Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend...
Jimmy can discourse for hours on how "she" works. A 14-foot pendulum and two weights keep her going. Each week Jimmy cranks up the weights, which weigh 1500 and 1000 pounds. The operation takes about an hour...
Last week he received visitors in his paneled office, where an antique pendulum clock loudly ticks among the modern furnishings. Usually he slid out from behind his big desk to sit beside the visitor on a comfortable red leather sofa. At week's end he watched as chubby, square-jawed James Webb was sworn in as his Under Secretary. Said Acheson: "I have here your commission . . . I hand it to you and congratulate myself...