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• The lower guide-bearing (Fig. 6) is simply a sleeve flanged at one end, babbitted on the inside, and slightly tapered on the outside where it fits into the base. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
• Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbittry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society. State of fear
• Col Babbitt and Mrs Zemp were invited to visit Rishworth School and yesterday saw the original Sowerby Parish Registers at the archives in the Central Library.
• I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.
• Then they got this fellow Babbitt to follow me around with that cursed gocart, and I haven't had a moment's peace since. Shorty McCabe
• Theoretically a babbitted journal bearing has an infinite life. Undefined
• The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
• The thrust of the disc from the main friction and the spring which holds it in its place, is against a babbitted face in the mandrel box. Liddell Company, Manufacturers of Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, Cotton and Yarn Presses, Shafting, Pulleys, etc., Charlotte, N.C.
• In 1920, the unadmired great man of American letters, William Dean Howells, died, and Lewis published Main Street; then Babbitt (1922); Arrowsmith (1925); Elmer Gantry (1927); Dodsworth (1929). The Romance of Sinclair Lewis
• Beginning in the 1930s, Baxter D. Whitney & Sons of Winchendon, Massachusetts, supplied Babbitt-bearing-to-ball-bearing conversion kits for its early planers.