Word: cooker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born; a year later, his brother Mark arrived. When the siblings were old enough to get into Jeff's bedroom, he rigged a buzzer to his door that would go off like a burglar alarm. Later, in what his family has come to think of as the "solar-cooker era"--named after a solar microwave he concocted out of an umbrella and aluminum foil--the garage became his laboratory...
...Pressure Cooker...
...break at the beach, most of my fellow students were planning a harried schedule full of commutes, overtimes and abbreviated weekends. And when I began my quest to find a summer job, I pledged to keep my summer as relaxing as possible, especially after a year in the pressure cooker known as Harvard University...
...Baekeland and an assistant began their search. Three years later, after filling laboratory books with page after page of failed experiments, Baekeland finally developed a material that he dubbed in his notebooks "Bakelite." The key turned out to be his "bakelizer," a heavy iron vessel that was part pressure cooker and part basement boiler. With it, he was able to control the formaldehyde-phenol reaction with more finesse than had anyone before...
...ladies are a really good cooker and I really love the ladies who cook for the people." --Aisling, 4, Currier House...