Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traveling 200 miles an hour at 30,000 feet altitude and with a cruising radius of 1,500 miles; a study of how to repel an aerial attack on cities such as New York. He said that he believed an enemy war ship lying 100 miles off Manhattan could pump aerial torpedoes into the city...
...pump, the tubes, the indicator -all part of his new electric device for blood transfusion-were getting their first demonstration. The ordinary transfusion is complicated and requires the concentrated attention of several people. The new method is quicker, simpler, easier. In five minutes the seller, minus several gills of blood, was speeding away with his money in his pocket, and poor Mae Wahl was sitting up in bed. Soon she would have a patch of red in each meagre cheek...
Reclamation projects are, by and large, high cost, "marginal" enterprises. Just as it is unprofitable to drill wells and pump water if there is plenty of good water to be obtained from streams or lakes, so it is unprofitable to undertake expensive reclamation projects until there is no longer an adequate supply of naturally good farm land. There has to be a shortage and consequently an increase in price in order to make any marginal enterprise profitable...
According to Yale tradition, when Vanderbilt Hall was built at the far end of the campus it was the first undergraduate dormitory to have plumbing and running water installed. Previously the campus pump had served all ablutionary and minor beverage requirements, winter in and summer out. The luxury of the projected Vanderbilt outraged the Yale alumni to the point of frenzy and many were the heated protests against its brass faucets and hot showers. What was Yale coming to? Such gilded youth as these would never beat Harvard in football. Running water indeed! In their time...
...Middlesex Hospital's official blood-supply man. Is it an old dodderer from whose veins the tingle of life has ebbed? A young slip of a girl, anaemic, wan, ghosty-eyed? Frederick George Lee bares his flesh, lets his stout heart pump good red blood into the sufferer's frame and for his office receives a goodly fee. In the past three years he has done that 24 times...