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"We do all sorts of things to men in the navy, but we don't drown them for the sake of their pictures. Suppose I show you around, for at two bells the men will be back from their dinner. Now, aft here, is the gasoline engine, which we use to propel the boat on the surface.

There was a loud whoosh of exploding gasoline, and both cans were ablaze. Rick ran away from the heat. Mike came in low and fast over the lab roof and slapped the plane down on the turf. In a moment he applied the brakes and the wheels whined their protest as they dug up grass. Then the plane was rolling to a stop directly in front of the house. The pilot jumped out and called, "Hello, gang!

Now about all that needed to be done was to see that there was plenty of gasoline and oil in the reservoirs. "I'll give you a note to Dr. Hendrix," said Mr. Gladby, as Tom was fastening on his faceguard. "I I trust you won't be disappointed, Tom. I hope he will consent to return with you." "He's got to come," said the young inventor, simply, as if that was all there was to it.

Ben has to go down in the town to get some more gasoline, and then he means to persuade Stephen French to go with us, so rush upstairs and change your dress while I report to him that you will go, and he will come back for us in half an hour."

Slowly the man turned the big blades until each cylinder was sucked full of the explosive mixture of gasoline and air. "Contact!" he cried, and Tom threw over the switch. Then, stepping once more up to the propeller, the man gave it a pull, and quickly released it, jumping back out of harm's way.

Our machine was supposed to make twenty miles to the gallon, and so it would on level roads, with the spark well advanced and the intake valve operating to a nicety; but under adverse conditions more gasoline is used, and with the hill-climbing gear four times the gasoline is used per mile.

German troops were reported marching south toward Poland to assist the Austrians. The Russian successes in Galicia gave them command of the Galician oil-fields, upon which Germany largely depended for her supply of gasoline, which is a prime necessary in modern war. On September 21 the Russians began the bombardment of Przemysl, having previously occupied Grodek and Mosciska, west of Lemberg.

The society columns in the papers assured him that everyone was out of town; but the Avenue seemed plentifully crowded with beautiful, superb creatures. Far down the gentle slopes of that glimmering roadway he could see the rolling stream of limousines, dazzles of sunlight caught on their polished flanks. A faint blue haze of gasoline fumes hung low in the bright warm air.

It made me quite happy that they were thus happy; and as to the right or wrong of it, I put that all aside for later explanation to them. I looked up to see Peterson, who touched his cap. "Yes, Peterson?" "We're on our last drum of gasoline, Mr. Harry," said he. "Where'll we put in Baton Rouge?" "No, we can't do that, Peterson," I answered. "Can't we make it to New Orleans?" "Hardly.

For a reply to some question about the art of flying, he would have run to the other end of the camp to get us a few drops of gasoline for our tanks...." He was learning, and when he saw his way clear, he wanted to begin flying. New Year's Day arrived that sad New Year's Day of the first year of the war. What gifts would he ask of his father? He would ask for help to win his diploma as pilot.