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...applied to a railroad car's wheels) are a pendulum, a set of floating weights, hydraulic cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...
Dick Wallace pulled off the hat trick yesterday as the Crimson Jayvee soccer team blasted a mixed M.I.T. Jayvee and Freshman squad, 5 to 1, on a rock strewn area that border the playing fields at M.I.T...
...applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap. She detested "Bohemianism, quaintness, affectation, whimsy, and-above all-effeteness." In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point...
...leadership will be effective only if its aims are identical with those of Congress. There is no indication that such is the case. Senator Taft is in favor of the Marshall Plan and aid to Europe, but on a scale far below that which the State Department deems a rock-bottom minimum. Representative Taber, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, is not convinced that France and Italy need help. House Majority Leader Hallcck asserts that Mr. Truman's requests will be "shot full of holes" by the time Congress gets through with them; while Speaker Martin feels the whole thing...
...Canada Lee plays with dignity and fervor one of the few thoroughly unpatronizing screen roles ever given a Negro. Lilli Palmer is a sensitive and lovely actress. John Garfield, having dropped some of his Dead End mannerisms, gives a good performance that is as hard and simple as a rock...