Word: hollowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even babies notice the difference. As they suck in the milk, the plastic dispenser contracts; the bottom draws into the hollow of the top to prevent excess air from seeping in. "Since there is no intake of air," says a Denver nurse, "the infants cry less, sleep better and are better satisfied." Studies at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan showed that 98% of milk samples from Beniflex bottles met safety standards, while only 92% of glass-bottle samples checked out as well. Because there are far fewer chances for contamination or human error, says one hospital research report...
Deep in a dial-studded cabinet on the Navy's test ship Compass Island lies a hollow sphere of beryllium no bigger than a baseball. It has no visible means of support, yet it spins at 30,000 r.p.m. Awed naval technicians call it a "star in a bottle," and they count on that man-made star to tell nuclear submarines exactly where they are, even after months of cruising in black ocean deeps...
...Freud had made an even more terrible god out of sexuality. "Sexuality evidently meant more to Freud than to other people," Jung wrote. "For him it was something to be religiously observed." To Jung, Freud was a tragic figure-an authoritarian beset with the curse of the Caesars, a hollow old man haunted by obsessions. At last, Jung dreamed of Freud conclusively: he saw him dressed in the uniform of an imperial Austrian customs inspector...
...that was hollow talk. The line was still drawn. Rubinstein gave the proceeds of the evening to the International Red Cross-still engaged in salving wounds from the war. And as a little reminder that his old oath was not forgotten, he said: "We Jews are sentimental people. We are in tears when we come to a spot where we know our people have been killed. Can you imagine how my hundreds of relatives, all slaughtered by the Germans, would feel looking down from the sky at me-playing in Berlin...
...mechanized plasticulture. A tractor huffs across the field trailing a 20-in. band of black film from a big roll. Two disks cut furrows under the film's edges, rubber wheels press the edges down, and another pair of disks covers them with soil. Planting is done by hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds sprout quickly and grow...