Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that if he could...
Nattily attired in a moth-eaten muffler and ear-muffs, C. Walton Jenks, Jr. '43, of Eliot House and Manchester, New Hampshire, was among those seen skimming over the icy surface of the Charles yesterday afternoon...
...access to water, as a medium of nourishment and energy exchange, and to oxygen or carbon dioxide for metabolism. An atmosphere would also be desirable, 1) as a storehouse of oxygen and carbon dioxide; 2) as a shield against the ultraviolet radiation of the parent sun; 3) as a muffler against sharp day & night temperature changes. Any conceivable kind of living cell would be killed or paralyzed by extreme cold...
There can be no life on Mercury or on the earth's moon, says Astronomer Jones. These bodies are too small to have held their atmospheres. The telescope and spectroscope both clearly show the moon to be a dead world, without air or water. Having no atmospheric muffler, the moon swings through a temperature change of several hundred degrees between the lunar day and night. Mercury, innermost of the planets, keeps one face turned always toward the sun. That side is extremely hot-about 750°-and the perpetually dark side must be correspondingly cold...
...clanged. Mr. Dean then dropped a piece of another metal. There was a faint thump. This "noiseless" metal, as strong and elastic as mild steel, is a heat-treated alloy of copper and manganese. "This," said Metallurgist Dean, "opens up many new possibilities-chatterless spring suspensions, noiseless gears, a muffler for a whole host of bothersome industrial sounds...