On the long, continuous downgrades of East Africa dynamic braking is of special value; the traction motors are used as generators and their energy output dissipated in force-ventilated banks of resistors. This facility enables a 700-ton trailing load, for example, to be brought down a 1 in 66 gradient at any selected speed between 14 and 25 m.p.h. without use of the air brakes.

His father had apprenticed him to a silk merchant.

A certain friction causes a leadiness or grayness. and the whiteness is gone. Therefore the best lead makers are the best grinders.

The bastards are quietly-quietly sharpening their parangs.