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Moreover, he has the unbounded vanity and self-conceit which is born of long years of adulation, and is infected by that touch of madness which breeds 'Cranks' in modern Europe, and 'Saints' in modern Asia. He preaches to crowded congregations thrice weekly, and the men of Trĕnggânu flock from all parts of the country to sit at his feet.
In normal states of growth, we call them "cranks" and look for no results from their existence. But the elusive spirit of love never dies. It appears and reappears in the history of all races and times, and leaves its mark upon them in various shapes of beneficence.
Farewell." He was gone. From down the street to their left rose shouts and the sound of many running feet, but there in front of them loomed the Tower against the black and rainy sky. They dashed across the little drawbridge that spanned the moat, and, seizing the cranks, wound furiously.
You know, a big hotel is the stamping ground for all sorts of cranks and crooks." The house detective had turned and had caught my eye. Much to my surprise, he advanced to meet me. "Say, er er Jameson," he began, at last recalling my name, though he had seen me only once and then for only a short time. "You're on the Star, I believe?" "Yes," I replied, wondering what he could want.
The Hunley was about forty feet long, six in diameter, and shaped like a cigar. Its motive power came from seven men turning cranks attached to the propeller-shaft. When working their hardest these men could drive the boat at a speed of about four miles an hour. Several attempts to use the Hunley were unsuccessful, each time it sank, drowning its crew of from eight to ten men.
One may doubt whether Heine's charm is not mainly due to the very lawlessness, the very contempt of "subject," the very quips and cranks and caprices that Mr Arnold so sternly bans.
But what's the matter with a captive balloon, and letting fresh-air cranks sleep in a big basket bed say, at five hundred feet? Or a thousand a thousand would be better. The air's purer." "With a net below," says I, "in case they should turn over and fall out of bed! It's funny nobody ever thought of it before!" "Isn't it?" exclaimed Mrs. Dick. "And we've all sorts of ideas. Dick Mr.
For one thing, William James kept his mind and heart wide open to all that might seem, to polite minds, odd, personal, or visionary in religion and philosophy. He gave a sincerely respectful hearing to sentimentalists, mystics, spiritualists, wizards, cranks, quacks, and impostors for it is hard to draw the line, and James was not willing to draw it prematurely.
Both the outer and inner corners of the crank are chamfered away, until the square part of the crank meets the round of the shaft. The method of securing the cranks pins into the crank eyes of the intermediate shaft consists in the application of a nut to the end of each pin, where it passes through the eye, the projecting end of the pin being formed with a thread upon which the nut is screwed.
The disk cranks are connected to a hollow steel ram by a connecting rod. The ram is divided inside into two compartments, each having a phosphor bronze air piston. These are connected together by a steel piston rod, the top air piston forming a connection for the small end of the connecting rod.
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