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...small spray to inject fuel into the cylinder at the moment when the piston has risen and greatly compressed the air in the chamber. Compression makes the air so hot that ignition is automatic and the explosion gradual and more powerful than the complex explosion obtained with a spark plug. No generator or distributor is needed by a Diesel; no pressure oiling system. The Diesel's fuel is crude oil-almost any oil will do. The Foos engineers maintained that their new contrivance was so perfected that even buttermilk, when introduced to its cylinder, would explode with sufficient violence...
Georges Carpentier was once a great boxer. Slender and genteel, he lambasted British plug-uglies in Paris sporting clubs; and proved that although he wore an orchid in the evenings and received perfumed notes in the mornings he could hit hard and dodge adroitly. Last week for nine seconds Carpentier lay on his face in a ring in Philadelphia. At ten he got up. With his eyes glazed, his ears ringing, a cut in his cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas...
...that he can devote very much of his time to any one of them especially to a minor sport, as tennis is considered. Then again, tennis matches come at an unfortunate time in the college year, the very peak of activities, when it is difficult to find time to plug away at the game...
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Cigarettes are banned from Kansas tobacco stores but there have been substituted a thousand varieties of little cigars, perhaps less harmful to youth. The agricultural plug, however, still abounds...