Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...
...foaming flood of subterranean water, to warn his comrades, George Castiller, Harry Watson, U. B. Wilson and Randolph Cobb. . . . Out in the shaft, Garth Heare, the mine's superintendent, labored night and day to drill through to the prisoners. Hard rock smashed the drill-bits. The mine pump failed. It was 153 hours (six days and a half) before Salem rejoiced and the victims, still alive and astonishingly cheerful, lay in the first aid station having their mud-caked clothes cut from their backs. In their cloth caps was scrawled this legend: "If we are dead when you find...
...making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage they ask, providing they will work an extra hour. Last week A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, secretary of the Miners Federation, became so fearful lest this strategy succeed that he threatened to order on strike even the "safety pump men" who prevent by their work irreparable damage to the coal mines which would result from unchecked flooding...
...altogether respectful parody of Mr. Anderson's vein. You can just see all the gay young men of Paris laughing over it at those luncheons. One Scripps O'Neil leaves his wife Lucy and their daughter Lousy when a chinook wind blows in the window of a pump factory in Petoskey, Mich., causing some Indians also employed there to warwhoop softly...
That imperturbable quality grows in him. Editors, recognizing his ability, are irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...