Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard commercialism of the North and to show how each needs the other. When Stokowski gave the ballet its world premiere in Philadelphia five years ago (TIME, April 11, 1932), he had dancers to take such roles as a coconut, a mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon...
Navigating was "The Dook," wiry, chaste, non-practicing bridge engineer, whose sober tinkering with the sextant gave their position anywhere from mid-ocean to mid-Australia. Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner...
This thought occurred to Acting Superintendent A. B. Everts of the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California. But 50 gallons of water weigh 416 Ib. Hauling that much weight, plus a pump and its power unit, over a mountain trail is slow work. Gasoline pumps are convenient but heavy. Forester Everts hit upon a source of power that is light and cheap as well as convenient. He tried frozen carbon dioxide...
...only through the dieticians' refusal to supply her with health foods such as Wheaties, Cocomalt, etc. This is announced with such reproachful sadness by the Crimson that one can only assume that these items are common fare in the Harvard Houses, and that their dieticians would be delighted to pump Freddie and his classmates full of haliver oil, on the slightest provocation. We heartily endorse this attitude, since by the natural laws of evolution the "precious ducklings" of Harvard (an expression aptly coined by the Crimson) will in ten years have progressed to a state where vitamin D alone...
After a cautious approach the hotfoot huskies of the Yard Police were relieved to find it was only a real body, and tossed it into a passing laundry truck. Having assured themselves that there was no more beer in the pump, they left...