There was a time when all manner of snippings were made to keep Handel's operas within bounds.

It was his thirty-third birthday and already he had […] a little round tummy like a hobbit

A motor car is provided with two self-ventilated series-wound G.E.C. traction motors, each having a continuous rating of 80 h.p. at 575 V. 116 A. at a field strength of 66 per cent.

Germany's development of rocket weapons paved the way for human controlled spaceflight.