Word: pump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because on some 6,000,000 of the nation's 6,800,000 farms farmers still read their mail-order catalogs by lamp light, still run their radios, if any, on batteries, still pump their water by hand or gasoline engine, President Roosevelt last May used his emergency powers and some of his relief billions to set up a Rural Electrification Administration. Its job was to provide farmers with electric lights, electric refrigerators, electric pumps, electric feed grinders. Early this year Nebraska's Senator Norris, No. 1 Congressional lover of electricity, sponsored a bill to lend...
...last week from a more authentic source when Dr. André Alexis Cueto of Cincinnati offered the medical profession a machine to grow hair on heads where hair follicles are not altogether dead. The machine consists of a hood which fits over the scalp. By means of an air pump Dr. Cueto creates an alternate vacuum and pressure upon the scalp. This exercises the capillaries of the scalp, brings revivifying blood to the follicles. On 150 heads which were as bald as the sole of his foot Dr. Cueto last week asserted he had produced satisfactory growths of hair...
...make his discovery, Dr. Wilson rigged up a perfusion pump analogous to the artificial heart which Charles Augustus Lindbergh designed for his admiring friend Dr. Alexis Carrel. To his pump Dr. Wilson hitched rabbit kidney after rabbit kidney, and through them perfused artificial blood composed of salt water, red corpuscles from beef blood and oxygen. Upon adding potassium cyanide, which displaces oxygen, Dr. Wilson through his microscope could see oxygen-starved mitochondria crumble while cells of the kidneys, and finally the entire kidneys died...
...Corporation voted "that a New Pump be procured for Use in the Kitchin & that a New Well be dug and a pump be put in it at the South East Corner of the Yard to accomodate the Students in Massachusetts College." The pump at the east end of Harvard Hall was done away with in 1885 as a test revealed the water was contaminated. The fate of the southernmost pump is unknown...
...These pumps being the only source of water for both drinking and bathing, "it is easy to imagine the days when the only means of bathing in the Yard was to bend one's back under the spout of the pump, while a roommate vigorously plied the handle." In his "Harvard Memoirs" President Eliot wrote: "The students in my time--nineteen-twentieths of them--brought their water in their own pails from one of two pumps in the Yard, carrying it up to their rooms themselves. They had no hot water whatever, unless they heated a pot on their...