Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind. This one, as always, tells how the villain tried by treachery to keep the hero's horse from coming first. As an undistinguished fable of the race track, salted smartly with curious slang and nimble humor, the farce does well enough. Jum Bubbles, Negro, inserted as a tap dancer, stole the spectators' attention from the story...
Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...
...surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could obviously not be dug by human labor. But an eroding alloy of aluminum would do it, melted by electricity, circulated...
...strain joggled putters in the final match, and neither woman could tap the small white ball unerringly into the small round hole. Mrs. .Pressler, far longer off the tee, less erring with her putter, led throughout to win the title...
...small pneumatic hammer originally designed by the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Co. to grave carvings and letterings on stone and to do delicate riveting. Its over-all length is eight inches, its net weight three and a half pounds. It delivers 3,800 blows a minute, each blow a light tap. But the sum of their rapid succession, when applied to the surgeon's bone-cutting chisel or osteotome, carves away bone precisely to the surgeon's design...