Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water vapor, operates a piston or turbine by the fall in its temperature. The higher the vapor is heated, the greater the pressure which must be controlled and the work the steam can do. Engineer Emmet sought a material whose vapor could carry great quantities of heat at relatively low pressures. He found mercury the best. It boils at 675° F., instead of at 212° F. for water. At 884° F. pressure is only 70 lbs. on a gauge, at 1,000° F. only 180 lbs. Those pressures are sufficient to run turbines. After...
Died. Sir A. Maurice Low, 68, of Washington, D. C., chief U. S. correspondent of the London Morning Post, 40 years a Washington newsgatherer; in Washington...
...Partial or low-church Nudists exist who hold out for gee-strings...
...retaliation the peasant farmer is growing less grain than he can, because: 1) he cannot buy anything with the money he gets from his grain, and 2) the Government is levying heavy grain taxes upon him by forcing him to sell most of his crop at a low Government-fixed price (to keep the price of bread within the means of urban workers and to net the Government a profit on its exports). The fact that there is more grain planted this year is due not to peasant efforts but to State farms and co-operatives inaugurated by the Government...
...peasant explains with a wink: "The peasant's cottage soon grows sick and draughty. Then comes a fire-is it an accident? The peasant gets a fine new home from the Government." A cogent scratch of the nose and then a conclusion: "They take taxes and fix a low-price for grain, but little Uncle Fire is free from their control...