Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favor of trade, liquor-control laws, and the decimal system. He was a physicist who anticipated Kant and Laplace in the nebular hypothesis, and a paleontologist far ahead of his time. His contributions to science included a modern theory of molecular magnetics, a system of crystallography, a mercury air pump, and a method of determining longitude at sea from the moon...
...make matters worse. Big Ben's powerful ventilating system began to pump explosive fumes and heavy smoke through the ship. As far down as the sixth deck, the blast jammed the airtight doors. The eight men on duty in damage control put wet rags over their faces and went about their critical work of relaying messages from the bridge to the fire fighters, as their oxygen supply dwindled. "This is my last breath," one of them gasped over his headset-and it was. With agonizing slowness, rescue parties cut through the wreckage...
...month ago President Eisenhower, spurred by the Steelworkers' David McDonald and others, was ready to go into action with the Government's depression-fighting machinery, including: stepped-up public works and liberalized Government-lending and Federal Reserve Board credit policies. But no sign of drastic pump-priming activities appeared. This week word came from the President's Economic Assistant Gabriel Hauge that these pump-priming measures would not be needed...
...fathered Father in his spare time, now puts that vestigial American male through his paces during a vacation. The summer house, on an island off New England, has been rented sight unseen and looks it. but Mr. Hobbs is brave in the face of basketwork furniture, a recalcitrant pump and a cesspool that backfires...
...chain and a $600 Harvard scholarship in his pocket. "The night before I was to leave for Harvard Law School," he recalls, "my father and I went out back to attend to our needs before we went to bed, and then he got a drink of water at the pump and sat down stiffly. I knew that meant I was to sit down...