Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine, as efficient as an airplane motor. Ray was now running third; three and a half laps from the finish, he jumped the field, passed Nurmi, Higgins, opened up a lead of ten yards. The crowd roared. Nurmi plodded on. One lap, two laps. His levers began to pump a little faster. Ray was tired. Suddenly Ray, suddenly Hahn, heard a great roar that was not for them. The robin's-egg shirt had begun to move. Hahn, Ray, saw it go past them, round the turn, into the last lap. Six yards from the tape, Nurmi looked over...
Every so often a tired rider would wheel out of the pack or "jam," dis- mount, reach for food, seek his bed and sleep. His partner would be waiting, mounted, at the trackside, when he came; would pump off, catch the pack, then circle, circle, circle until hunger and fatigue brought his turn to lie down...
Another possible explanation offered by Mr. Enright is that of the exceptionally dry autumn. In the last fifteen years, it has very rarely been necessary to pump water into the rinks. Unless a large number of leaks are found, the work should be completed today...
...Giving the blood isn't painful", he said. "All that is done is to stick a needle into the donor's arm and pump ous as much of the fluid as is needed. About a pint can be taken with perfect safety and a quart has been removed without ill effects, but if the larger amount is taken from some persons they notice had symptoms, such as tiring easily and getting short of breath. If they drink a good deal of water and rest completely for a day or so they will recover entirely...
...three other planes were waiting ahead of him, 400 miles west, at Dutch Harbor (Alaska), while high winds and repairs delayed their chief at Chignik (Alaska). Before Major Martin left, he found it necessary to scrape 400 pounds of ice off his plane and thaw out his gasoline pump. The promise of calmer weather proved deceptive, and with reports of 100-mile-an-hour gales in the North Pacific, the second disappearance of the Seattle was sad, but not unexpected news. The natives reported that " the weather is worse than has been known for years and even the sea gulls...