Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crash near Port Deposit, Md.). What caused the baggage fire was a question which might never be answered. All the baggage of Flight 608 was loaded into belly cargo pits through which passed no gasoline lines or electric wires. The pits carried automatic smoke indicators and extinguishing apparatus. It seemed unlikely that matches, cigarette lighters or other ordinary objects in the passengers' luggage could have set the ship afire...
Hopeful Future. "The heart of the fast reactor," the report explains, "is a small vessel"; but apparently the vessel must be surrounded by a good deal of auxiliary apparatus. "Since the heat is generated in a relatively small region, special cooling provisions are required to prevent overheating of the center of the reactor...
Trial Dip. The cramped (141 cubic foot) space inside the steel-shelled coconut will be crammed with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will...
...Oxford Street, in a job which Edward Reynolds '15, administrative vice president of the University, called a "normal expansion," workmen are laying larger electrical cables necessary to carry the increased lead caused by the new cyclotron and other scientific apparatus in nearby buildings...
Green for Danger (Rank; Eagle-Lion) is just another proof that the British, too, can make mediocre pictures. It is an affable, rattletrap murder mystery about a couple of doctors (Trevor Howard and Leo Genn), a few nurses (Sally Gray, Rosamond John, etc.) and an anesthetizing apparatus which, to everybody's dismay, induces the big sleep...