Word: bulbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fodder from the needed workers. Out of a working population of 15,000,000 some 7,000,000 were listed by the Government as employed in "essential" jobs, exempt from voluntary defense duties, and, by implication, from draft. These included some whose possible wartime duties puzzled many Britons: floorwalkers, bulb growers, bookstall attendants, piano polishers, paper hangers, trade-union officials, executives of British Broadcasting Corp. (but not announcers or entertainers...
Haematometharmozograph is a ten-dollar name for a simple two-hundred dollar contrivance made from an electric light bulb, a photoelectric cell and an oscillograph. On the principle that fear constricts small blood vessels in the fingers, prevents blood from freely circulating through the hands, Dr. Thompson rigged up an apparatus which would indirectly show whether blood vessels were constricted by measuring the amount of light which passes through a person's hand...
Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...
...adventurers got up into the crypt, but couldn't locate the bulb. After groping in the gloom frantically for the string, they got desperate. On top of this, each was heavily burdened with a tripod and a pair of binoculars...
Consider another day when the dry bulb temperature is 102° but the relative humidity is only 47%. The wet bulb temperature would again be approximately 84°, and the victim would suffer no more than on the first day in spite of the fact that the temperature is 18° higher...