Word: hoses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is no air supply coming down through a hose, the diver carries tanks of oxygen and helium on his back, inside the suit, adjusts his own atmosphere. Thus there is no airline to foul or puncture, and the diver can even disconnect his hoist line for greater freedom, keeping track of a "distance line" on the bottom so that he can find his way back to the surface connecting lines. If he happens to lose it, he can, according to Diver Nohl, rise of his own accord by valving gas into the suit...
...this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime national hop, step & jump champion, taxied to the Fisher plant, there to face the men who had threatened to turn a fire hose on him if he stuck his head in the gate. At the end of an hour and twenty minutes' palaver President Martin emerged unscathed, the rebels trailing behind him to announce to waiting reporters: "It's all over, boys...
...University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned a fire hose on the Staters. In Eleventh Street, a State car stalled. One of its occupants began to throw ears of corn at the Oregonians. In a flash the Oregonians hauled him and his three companions out of the car and tossed them into the chilly millrace running by the campus...
...spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred dollars for kneeling stools for her church or to send a tenant a load of wood day after she has censured...
...Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help get the horses out. The firemen, aware that insurance on their equipment was void if the equipment was damaged outside Boise, quick-wittedly refused. While the horses burned to death in screeching agony, Boise's firemen played their hose on a telegraph pole across the street from the fire, to protect it from the flames...