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  • A dynamo's efficiency in translating mechanical motion into electricity, varies with the type of machine and its size.

    Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine Frederick Irving Anderson 1912

  • The diminutive dynamo's knives-out vocal delivery helped lay the groundwork for all the women of rock and launched a 50-plus year career that has taken her around the world several times.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Few Hollywood scandal stories match their subject's persona so beautifully, and while director Howard Hawks saw nothing particularly amiss with this episode, apparently, mogul Louis Mayer had Tracy kicked off the film anyway, and downward the chatterbox dynamo's career stock slumped.

    Culture Guide Michael Atkinson 2010

  • The BCG, of course, takes the stance of its customers, Western companies, and the study is mainly aimed at how multinational companies (MNCs) can replicate 6 of these dynamo's advantages, in order to compete with them.

    Comments for Tech IT Easy @IMD_OWP 2010

  • Back across the puddle we used to call them dynamo's which I've been told are called alternators over here.

    unknown title 2009

  • Several months after the album's release, the young dynamo's latest single, a soulful interpretation of the classic "I Will Always Love You," has cracked the Top 40 on the venerable radio trade magazine FMQB's Adult Contemporary chart.

    unknown title 2009

  • Well, following in this dynamo's footsteps just got much easier, and more fun.

    ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs 2008

  • Well, following in this dynamo's footsteps just got much easier, and more fun.

    ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs 2008

  • Well, following in this dynamo's footsteps just got much easier, and more fun.

    ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs 2008

  • Holroyd had at first initiated his "nigger" into such elementary conceptions of the dynamo's working as would enable him to take temporary charge of the shed in his absence.

    The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911

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