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...center. Using a foot pedal to regulate the circle's size, he frames the target, from wing tip to wing tip, in the circle (see cut). The machine then instantaneously makes all the necessary computations; all the gunner has to do is press the trigger...
...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
...familiar refrain came from South Bend: Notre Dame has another winner. In two games the Irish's unscored-on teen-agers had piled up 13 touchdowns, nine against Pittsburgh, four against Tulane.With the help of two bona fide Irishmen and a pair of trigger-armed passers, the Fighting Irish looked like champions as usual...
...Monday morning, but we must descend at last. At least that's the theory of our very dear pharmacists' male friend (the eye specialists you know). In his rotund manner, thrusting, the creosote gun down our throat he says "You've danced, now pay the piper" and pulls the trigger...
...this sort of defense, any Hitler youth, any old garrison service corpsman, any dummkopf may be able to stand in a concrete pillbox and press a trigger, till he is killed. But to make the West Wall effective, 30 to 45 divisions are needed, and a good proportion of them must be first-rate troops for counterattacking...