Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return the boy to the respirator for a few breaths. Three days after completion of the operation he said: "Please shut off the machines. They're making too much noise." Then he ceased hearing all sounds. He had lived 177 days, nearly six months, in his lung pump...
...owns a large St. Louis coal company, all go and take their friends to Sportsman's Park every afternoon they can. Edward Magnus, a vice president of Diesel Engine Co., watches every game and takes his family twice a week. Paul Bowling, an official in Star Bucket & Pump Co., keeps a five-seat box for the members of his family and has not missed a game for five years. They, even more than Gabby Street, a man of 49, with a homely, angular face, who sits quietly in the dugout, not waving his score card like Connie Mack...
...last snow flies in New England. Hulking pungs slide off quietly into the slashing behind the pump horse. The new town truck drones along the highway casting up furrows of white foam. With a sharp jar as the sled strikes ground, a cheerful gnome starts off belly flopper down the hill to school. A tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over...
...Vagabond spent yesterday morning in a vain effort to solve the problem of his rooming accommodations for this year. The best location, judged from a physical standpoint, is the pump shack by Appleton Canyon in the Yard. But there the miniature landscape even now is cluttered by a few early Freshmen. One of them asked Mr. Apted, who was loitering around, if he would care to join him in a round of peewee golf; freshmen must band together, you know, we're all Harvard...
...York City. The gas company wanted a device to resuscitate asphyxiated persons. The Drinker machine does that (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930). It is a metal box weighing 700 Ib. A person unable to breathe voluntarily is sealed in the chamber, all except his head. An electric pump creates a mild, interrupted vacuum in the sealed box. The vacuum is sufficient to pull up the victim's chest. That action pulls air into his lungs through his mouth which remains exposed to the free air. When the chamber vacuum is released, his chest falls, air is squeezed...