Word: expand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Power Appliances. Electrical refrigeration commercializes a device which the British scientist Lord Kelvin built 30 years ago. With a pump he compressed gases; the gases lost heat. He permitted the gases to expand into a chamber; they absorbed heat from neighboring objects. Such objects naturally grew colder with the abstraction of their heat...
...Actors Theatre also plans to expand into a greater, national institution. Under the brilliant direction of Guthrie McClintic, it sprang suddenly from an obscure, uncoordinated giant organization into what may yet become the most potent, impressively endowed theatre company in the world. With numberless artists at its disposal, it needs only a few more plays like Saturday's Children to carry Director McClintic's vaulting ambition over the first hurdle. He hopes, eventually, to gather a permanent company of over 200 actors, whose province, necessarily, will include theatres far from Manhattan. All this may not come about next...
...During the seventies it was expected that the University would expand towards the north," said Professor Conant, "and that is why Memorial Hall was placed where it is. In fact, an offer of all the land between Massachusetts Avenue and the river was refused...
...prisons. The soldier gets only one good meal a day, he said. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis added that President Coolidge and the Budget Bureau were responsible for the Army's meagre diet. Hearing these words and many others, the House Military Affairs Committee set about to expand the War Department appropriation bill. It increased the daily food ration five cents per day (a total recommendation of $2,167,187); it provided for an enlisted strength of 118,750 instead of the 115,000 proposed in the budget; it made no allowances for the building of new barracks...
...conquest for new territory? Last week U. S. newsgatherers asked him this question as tactfully as they could. Instead of returning them a glare for their pains, II Duce, ruddy with health and vigor, seemingly in the best of humors, sketched his professed idea of how Italy is to expand without fighting. Said...