Word: tripod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Henry's original tow consisted of an ancient Chevy, a tripod of two-by-fours and a length of rope. The Chevy, reduced to three wheels, sat at the bottom of the hill and provided the motive power. The rope ran around the car's tireless rear wheel, up the hill, around the fourth wheel which was mounted on the tripod, and back. By the following January, the tow had been refined by the addition of idler wheels and the substitution of a Ford tractor as power...
Protestant, Catholic and Jew, as Will Herberg pointed out (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955), now form a spiritual tripod on which the U.S. conception of religion rests, and, says Marty, "the old concept of a 'Protestant' America is as obsolete as the side-wheel showboat, the cigar-store Indian or the Fourth of July oration. We all think of these things as part of 'our' culture-but where do we go to find them?" Marty suggests that Protestantism is insecure because it senses itself to be a minority (although statistically it is not), while Roman Catholicism...
Producer Gurian, 45, rests his return to the boondocks-once teeming with such performers as Maude Adams and Edwin Booth-on a tripod of reasons: "It's practical; it's economical; and it's romantic." Some time next year, the Gurians will bring their play to the radioactive sidewalks of New York, but by then, they will be able to view critical reaction philosophically. "A moderately good show might flop in New York," muses Manning, "but it might entertain the nation...
...Silent-sentry radar set, resembling old-style box camera on a tripod, picks up movement within 800 yds. under any conditions...
...machine gun also fires 7.62-mm. ammo, replaces light and heavy -30-cal. machine guns of World War I vintage. The first true infantry assault gun of its kind, it can be fired from bipod, tripod, hip or shoulder, weighs 23 Ibs. (v. 30-40 Ibs.), is designed for quick replacement of barrel...