Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, however, a great deal is being done. The Shannon electricity scheme is proceeding at enormous expense. When completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
...power supply of the Pitkin bone hammer consists of an ordinary small compressor unit. Seventy pounds pressure of air, delivered to the hammer, is all that is used at Massachusetts General Hospital where Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin has been at work. In experiments more than 70 pounds pressure shattered the bones of cadavers, although bones of living patients can stand greater battering without splitting untowardly. The chief problem in perfecting the device was to get the power air sterile enough for the operating room. That Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin accomplished by passing the air through an alcohol filter...
...advantages of such a pneumatic hammer-chisel in the hands of the bone surgeon are: abundant power under perfect control; speeding without tendency of charring the bone that is being cut; accurate tooling of the bone with a minimal risk of accidental fracture; ability to operate in deep wounds through small openings...
...vision of that one Power which guides the world...
...notes "a curious lack of metaphysical power" in the U. S., but thinks this is only natural and temporary in a country that has been so busy. The U. S. will eventually see the vision too. Its insistence on the importance of the individual, i.e. Walt Whitman, is its contribution to civilization so far, and, being a capable manufacturer, it will some day add Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men, etc., to its already celebrated product, Liberty...