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Like the Dutch boy at the pierced dike, the professor stuck his finger in the hole. As an excited assistant stitched up the hole, Professor Sauerbruch slowly withdrew his finger-plug, until all was laced tight, like a football. The girl got well...
...registering the 1 pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel in one sharp blast, before the spark flame can do its comparatively slow duty. Antiknock compounds obviate...
...were stationed on the Weld and Newell floats and balconies, had photographed the whole procession, the University and 150-pound crews made a few exhibition racing starts and the Lowell House oarsmen posed for special pictures with and without derbies. The cox wain of the latter eight were a plug...
...went about grotesquely dressed, carrying a faded umbrella, wearing a ludicrous plug hat. He was mannerless, unkempt, and one wonders if he was not unwashed, in those days of the weekly bath in the foot tub, if a bath was taken at all. [As attorney, for the Illinois Central R. R. he was found] riding about on special trains furnished him and posing as 'Humble Abe Lincoln...
...Keller's regime on Town Topics was until recently, relatively inconspicuous. Five years ago he succeeded the late Mrs. Emma Mann-Vynne who. five years previously, had inherited control from the founder, her father, Col. William D'Alton Mann. Under the direction of the baldpated, snowy-whiskered, plug-hatted Colonel, the magazine had a stormy 30-year career as Society's gossip-peddler. The Colonel died in 1920, leaving an estate...