Word: damping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PORTABLE TV SETS are dangerous when used in damp places, e.g., bathroom, laundry, basement, garden or poolside, warns National Safety Council. As a result of accidental electrocution of Chicago boy by portable TV set, General Electric Co. dealers henceforth will make safety check without charge of any G.E. portable bought by their customers...
Pending issues. With poverty souring the country's mood, both cardinal and commissar are constantly trying to damp down the tension between them. Pending issues, which will also constitute a major part of Wyszynski's agenda in his talks with the Pope...
Heaped into sacks and bundled under the stairs of his house, the Datini papers came to light again in 1870, little the worse for damp and mice. They included no fewer than 150,000 letters, more than 500 account books, 400 insurance policies, numerous ledgers-all of them adding up to a unique record of early Renaissance trade and a remarkable story of an early capitalist. British-born Marchesa Iris Origo (Leopardi: A Study in Solitude-TIME, Aug. 2, 1954) has done a brilliant job of sifting the Datini papers and presenting them for the first time as a biographical...
...selected to lead the country out of chaos. "Brethren," said Sukarno, "I as President and Supreme Commander order you all to sit in ministerial council." And sit they did. But before the week was out, there were mounting signs that Sukarno's crackling start might end in a damp sputter...
...scholars' work. Many were called home, and the manuscripts themselves were packed away in 36 cases and locked up in the Ottoman Bank at Amman, Jordan, from which they were returned to Jerusalem for study only last month-some of them slightly moldy and spotted from the damp vault. (Complete photographs of the manuscript material exist, but direct examination is necessary to the delicate process of matching and fitting fragments...