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Word: leaked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stout cable. When he hauled it back to the deck of his tug Freedom, the bathysphere was full of water under pressure such that it blew the lid's bolt across the deck after it was loosened. There was a tiny leak in a port gasket. Any surface creature inside would have been crushed to jelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Low Ball | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Harmsworth Cup | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...With Argentina's vital meat sales to Great Britain at stake, President Augustin P. Justo kept a catlike watch on the Ottawa Conference last week. He let the news leak out that "Argentina has taken the initiative in seeking reciprocity tariff agreements with the United States and other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Presidents' Week: Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...President Taft. Howard Fisher is both a technician and theorist in architecture. Architects in many lands have read his paper on getting the maxi mum amount of sunlight into a house. He is considered an expert on designing squash courts. One day he noticed his brother's walls were leaking. When he found out that Chicago's Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium, both masonry structures, also had leak troubles, he decided steel would be a better building material than brick. He first took his idea of a General Motors in the housing field to steel-conscious Charles Allen Liddle, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: General Houses | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Mercury Detector. General Electric built a large, efficient generator at Hartford, operated by mercury vapor instead of steam (TIME. July 8, 1929), is building another at Schenectady. The mercury boilers are dangerous because they might leak mercury, poison the workmen. A delicate mercury detector was in order. It is a yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemical Engineers | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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