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...January, he drained 99.999999 percent of the air out of the cyclotron in a vacuum test. The main chamber has to be free of air molecules when in operation, so that the spinning electrons won't bump into anything...
...innocent gaum O'Casey woke up with a bump to find that most people were clay after all. When his proletarian plays were staged by Dublin's Abbey Theater, many critics hissed maliciously and poets looked nervously the other way. Even pioneers, O'Casey discovered, fear public opinion; even democrats get a kick out of wearing striped pants and top hats; even noble esthetes enjoy walking with one foot in the gutter. Sean was shocked to find that stately, plump Oliver St. John Gogarty surreptitiously read whodunits ; that refined Lady Gregory reveled...
...witty talker, he seized on a bowl of popcorn to illustrate his working methods to reporters. "I begin with something like this," he explained, delicately selecting a kernel and gazing at it through tortoise-shell glasses. "I see just what expression it takes and develop that. Now this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold it a bit"-giving the kernel a cruel squeeze-"or I may throw it away." And with...
American Airlines is scheduling several flights for the weekend, W. N. Bump, regional vice-president, announced last night. "We except to be able to meet all demands for seats on Saturday flights," he added. No extra manpower in the reservation department is needed to take care of the increase in applications for seats, he explained, because of the new electronic "reserviser." But despite the efficiency and fairness of the machine, he urged students to make reservations as soon as possible...
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