Word: exhaustingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reap his whirlwind, Chang started a smoke generator installed beneath a screened cylindrical cage 9 ft. high and 6 ft. in diameter. After the smoke was drawn toward the top of the cage by a powerful exhaust fan, the cage itself began to revolve. As the screen approached six revolutions per minute, it imparted a rotary motion to the air being drawn through it by the fan. The rising smoke gradually turned into a column that rotated at 1,200 r.p.m., whistling around in the cage at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. Pieces of confetti on the floor...
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare told manufacturers that, effective with 1968 models, all cars sold in the U.S. must be equipped with devices that will curb exhaust fumes, which pollute the air in almost every major U.S. city and are potentially a major killer. HEW hopes that its new regulations, which will cut out about half of the carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon pollutants, will clear the air somewhat by the end of the decade, as new cars replace older smoky models...
...rest proved to be anything from lenticular clouds to runaway balloons, kites to jet-engine exhaust. At week's end the Air Force attributed the Ann Arbor and Hillsdale apparitions to marsh gas (methane) created by organic decomposition and ignited by combustion...
...Another petition has been drafted by the Student Council of the Divinity School. It urges the University to "exhaust all means" in Bowles's defense...
...product. Le Corbusier, in his last buildings, was jutting monks' cells out into space, making air funnels into sculpturesque "light cannons." Britain's "New Brutalists" have made sinewy decoration out of external electrical conduits. Philadelphia Architect Louis Kahn has made feudal towers out of air intake and exhaust stacks. Today's architects, in making virtues out of plain necessities, may yet learn how to rival the medieval master masons who turned water spouts into sculpted gargoyles...