Word: seacock
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...Seconds. First, Bond and Tuckfield checked the lights, emergency gear-and each other. Then Tuckfield opened a seacock, and the forward escape hatch began to fill with water. The men stayed at normal atmospheric pressure because excess air and their stale breath escaped through a vent line into the torpedo room. As the 68° water rose to their chins, Bond and Tuckfield shivered. With half a minute to go, the doctor gave the order and the chief opened a valve, letting air under 225 Ibs. pressure gush into the hatch. The outlet vent was closed. The air pressure zoomed...
...conviction that the future of higher education lay with municipal institutions. His first contribution to that future was to shake out of the faculty a quantity of Presbyterian preachers. His second was to replace them with young Ph.D.'s. The new instructors, with their liberal leanings, proved Dr. Seacock's undoing. Few months ago word got out that he was at odds with fully half the regents, including their Chairman James Edward Davidson...
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