Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked up in the spring the Administration program for dealing with depression would finally emerge as pump priming. A shot of inflation had worked once, and the needle was still in the medicine chest...
Swedenborg, inventor of a mercury air pump, a stove, an ear trumpet, believer in the feasibility of airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church...
...operation, the metal to be melted is placed in the crucible, and an air tight cylindrical hood, about 10 inches in diameter by 15 inches in height, is placed over all the parts. By a powerful vacuum pump, the pressure under the hood is reduced to about one billionth of ordinary atmospheric pressure...
...Every Day's A Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig. But, like trying to purify the water by whitewashing the village pump, it did not work. To situations considerably less potential than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular...
Ever since botanists knew that sap was carried from the roots of a tall tree to the leaves at its top they have wondered what force was responsible for this transportation. One theory held was that pressure in the roots acted as a pump from below. The trouble with this was that no pressures could be measured higher than 1.4 atmospheres, which would not do for trees taller than 46 feet. Lately accepted as the most satisfactory explanation is the cohesion theory, in which it is supposed that suction created at the top by evaporation is transmitted through a cohering...