Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week a black cloud rolled in from Lake Erie toward Conneaut, Ohio, dropped from its belly a thin, whirling column which touched the dark water, churned up a fountain of spray. This towering waterspout, more than 3,000 ft. high, moved in over the fringe of the town, where it began to behave like a tornado. It smashed windows in a score of houses, ripped off a porch, reduced a chicken coop to matchwood, hurled a bevy of screeching fowl high into the air. Prancing into the Nickel Plate Road yards, the funnel sucked up some heavy cans...
Ancient mariners regarded waterspouts as dragons, tried to disperse them by stamping their feet, shouting, beating drums, clashing swords. When gunpowder came into use, sailors tried to break the columns by shooting cannon. The spouts are chiefly vapor but may contain fresh water condensed from the cloud or salt water sucked up from the sea. Like tornadoes they are atmospheric vortices caught by conflicting air currents, with partial vacuums at their cores. In general, however, they are much less violent than the average tornado, do damage only by dropping their loads of water. If a land tornado passed...
...physician a person's blood pressure is only one of several physiological facts needed for making an intelligent diagnosis. The physician measures the blood pressure by wrapping around the patient's upper arm a hollow rubber cuff to which is connected a graduated column of mercury. Applying a stethoscope over an artery in the forearm, the doctor pumps air into the hollow cuff until it stops circulation. At this instant the air pressure in the cuff equals the maximum (systolic) blood pressure in the arteries of the arm, and the doctor hears a sharp blowing sound...
...Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey for her writings in the Forsyth (Mo.) Taney County Republican (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last fortnight Crowell announced that this year's $200 prize had fallen to Mrs. Susan Frawley Eisele, whose farm home is nine miles from Blue Earth, Minn., in recognition of her column, With a Penny Pencil, which runs once a week in the Fairmont (Minn.) Sentinel...
Born in Georgetown, S. C. and brought up in Newport, Tenn., Mrs. Eisele and her husband settled on the Minnesota farm with which his prosperous Iowa father dowered them. For the nearby Blue Earth Post they collaborated on The Post Chaise column, which Mr. Eisele carried on when his wife branched out in the Fairmont paper...