Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recompression emergencies, to help in the battle for life. With the chamber door slammed and bolted, Biller waited as compressed air began to shriek in. Soon the air pressure inside the tank built up to 73.4 Ibs. per sq. in.-the equivalent of the pressure 165 ft. below sea level...
...Biller began another long wait. The chamber pressure equaled that of 60 ft. below sea level; he would have to stay in the tiny (4 ft. 10 in. wide, 9 ft. 11 in. long) tank for the long, slow decompression cycle to bring him back to the earth's atmosphere. He sat there with the dead man's body for the rest of the night, then all through the next day and the next night, and into early hours of the following morning. He slept a few fretful moments on his tiny bench. Once or twice he whistled...
Oleomargarine Scion Minot F. ("Mickey") Jellce, 27, was sprung from a New York pen after serving 21 months for high-level pandering in Manhattan...
...first that I would not have chosen Dr. Oppenheimer, had I been the one to make the choice. There is a clear need for the scientists, who so control our lives these days, to think and speak on a philosophical as well as a scientific level, for they may know best the awesome problems with which current philosophical thought must contend. Still, a scientist other than Oppenheimer might well have been chosen for the honor of grappling with these problems in the William James lectures...
...attributed "public apathy towards the government in the states" to inept and timid party leadership on the state level. The result of this situation, he said, might well be "eventual federal centralization...