Silver, as he sat, took certain bearings with his compass.
Can't you see the guy's chain lightning on ball bearings?"
The first of the tall trees was reached, and by the bearings proved the wrong one.
[At this point the bearings of the mid-glacier depot are given, but need not be quoted.]
Air-tight joints in the pipes which lead to the compressed air reservoir are placed in the bearings of this mounting.
The doctor watched him with a smile; and, while Joe went on, he took the bearings, and found that the missionary's grave lay in twenty-two degrees twenty-three minutes east longitude, and four degrees fifty-five minutes north latitude.
This may be effected, for instance, in the case of a pendulum working air-compressors, by mounting the latter on bearings like those of the gun-carriage in a field piece, and having two of them operating one at right angles to the other.
"I have looked at the question in all its bearings, I have resolutely attacked it, and by incontrovertible calculations I find that a projectile endowed with an initial velocity of 12,000 yards per second, and aimed at the moon, must necessarily reach it.
Practically, therefore, it will be found best to build out a steel framework from each side of the stern for holding the bearings of each screw in connection with the twin water-tight compartments holding the shafting; and thus will be evolved what will practically represent a twin, or double, stern.