Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others, the next Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; American Car & Foundry's William Hartman Woodin whom some dopesters put into the Treasury; the "brain trust," Professors Moley & Tugwell. Also aboard was Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, who took President Wilson's stomach pump ; way and made him exercise, to discuss the inauguration plans...
...flexible flask. Sculptor Lenz added a principle long used in dentistry, never before in sculpture. A vacuum pump is attached to the mold. Instead of pouring the metal in, it is sucked strongly into the finest grooves. At the same time air pressure causes
...directly to the invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp which saves U. S. users of electricity, according to estimates. $1.000,000 a night. The same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes. To do this he was obliged to design a new powerful mercury pump. Result is cheap, highly efficient vacuum tubes for radio, and long distance telephony. Another result was Dr. Coolidge's perfection of dependable x-ray tubes and his design of tandem x-ray', tubes whose radiation is almost as powerful as radium's gamma rays. (Manhattan...
...Greenland Wai encountered no serious trouble until crossing the Bay of Bengal. About 150 mi. off Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...
...uncommon, for the writer says "Harvard Square is a sort of halfway point between the two great cattle markets of Boston." While the cattle were being driven from one market to the other, the herders would make a half at the Square to water their charges at the town pump...