Word: faucet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small World, California Division. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Elsie Joseph jumped out of the bathtub as a fish jumped out of the faucet. The fish died of hot water...
...effective will be shown this summer when a considerable number of PC units get to work. The men of the PC have firm faith; a lieutenant commander, veteran of the Battle of the Atlantic, audaciously predicted: "We'll turn off this Nazi submarine campaign like turning off a faucet...
...Health, and the Rockefeller Foundation are working on the disease, no one yet knows what it is. It has been seen in Austria, India, Britain, Germany, Australia, Malaya, is probably carried by a virus. It usually infects only one eye, which becomes bloodshot, swollen, drips tears like a leaking faucet. At first the inner eyelid is speckled red, like trout, later looks like crimson velvet. During the second week there is occasional stabbing pain in the eyeball; after that there is little discomfort except the continual dripping...
...After initial chlorine treatment has killed organic matter in the water, a sensitive cell measures the residual chlorine by the amount of electric current which will pass through the water. Further chlorine is then automatically added only as needed to protect the water on its way to the ultimate faucet, instead of according to the volume of water, as at present. Now used at New Haven, Conn., the new chlorinators will soon be installed in New York and other U.S. cities...
...life was made up of loving and making money, but it was a good deal more than that. Life was made up of letting the dog out, of hitting your thumb with the hammer when you were driving nails, of getting someone to fix the washer in the laundry faucet, of Christmas and friends to dinner. . . . It always seemed that, when I finished with one particular problem, there would be time to read or time to think-but there was always something else. . . . From the depths of memory a troubled tale emerges...