Word: pump
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...
This sideshow life impressed him finally as no commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...
...ocean water, at the depth of five-eighths of a mile (1,000 metres), is always 39.2°. No matter what the surface temperature may be, the depths are at just a little above freezing (32°). Georges Claude would drop a long pipe to the ocean deep and pump up cold water to condense his turbine steam. A totally different method of using tidal energy is to "harness" the powerful ebb-and-flow movement of the tides. Three important projects are already under way to accomplish this-at Passamoquody Bay (see p. 31) inlet of the Bay of Fundy...
...astonishing tangle of insulators, wires, supports, switches, a huge induction coil-equipment for supplying 350,000 volts. In his hand he held, a glass vessel, five feet long, bulging in the middle. This was a vacuum tube, made portable so that it could be attached to an exhaustion pump in any laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current. About this cathode was built another innovation in vacuum tubes, a metal cup designed...
...days when Harvard Square was a village centre--with the town pump and the hay scales in the middle of the square, with a small common used for tethering cattle where the present subway station is, were called out of the past by Mr. G. G. Wright of 20 Mellon Street, Cambridge, in an interview yesterday. Mr. Wright, President Emeritus of the Havard Square Business Men's Association, is the oldest business man in the Square. He is famous for his collection of old books, prints, and directories. Mr. Wright related to the CRIMSON representative yesterday his impressions...