Word: three
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baldwin in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, looked at the greying, dignified man on his left and the professional fellow in horn-rimmed glasses on his right, both seated at Stein-ways. Then Leonard Bernstein launched his assembled forces into Bach's Concerto in C for Three Pianos. A part of last week's special Bach Christmas program by the New York Philharmonic, the concerto was ably executed, drew enthusiastic applause and an extra bow by the performers. The odd thing about the performance: Bernstein's fellow pianists had never before played for such an audience. They...
...three snelly days the poor thiggin gaes stravagin' about Argyll wi' the King's men rairin' at his duff, all the whyles hummin' an' hankerin' at ilka Scottish hizzie that leuks as if she griens a kiutle. Hoch aye, what a collie-shangie! As the fourth day daws, the great ram-feezled bairn gaes spracklin' back to Beigg, ye ken, in a wee drunt. But the primsie lass he left behind shakes her cockernony at him and soon pits some rumble-gumption...
Instead of cylinders and pistons, the Wankel engine has a single combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight (see diagram). Inside, it is a three-cornered rotor with curved sides. A shaft passes through the rotor and makes it move on an eccentric orbit by means of two gears. All three corners of the triangle stay in contact with the wall of the chamber at all times. To make the contacts gaslight, each corner is tipped with an inset metal strip that, as the drive shaft revolves, is pushed tight against the cavity's inner walls...
...whole engine is an ingenious exercise in mechanical geometry. As the rotor turns, its corners form three moving cavities that first increase in volume and then decrease. When a cavity, still small but growing, passes the intake port leading to the carburetor, it draws in fuel and air. Then the cavity decreases in volume, compressing the mixture. The engine's single spark plug fires; the exploding gas pushes the rotor and shaft. At the end of the power stroke, a corner of the rotor uncovers the exhaust port, and the burned gases are swept out of the engine. Meanwhile...
Double Degrees. In October (its first month), the hospital had twelve patients (only five inpatients), got up to 21 in November, then slumped to three a week this month. Clinical Director Robert J. Birnkrant, who is both an M.D. and a D.D.S., notes that operating costs run to $43,000 a month. Unless dental cowards-and professionally conservative dentists-fill some of the hospital's cavities soon, the pioneering venture will have to be abandoned. Only the stockholders cannot lose: the building would make a quick hit as a specialized medical hospital, e.g., for ear-nose-throat cases...