Word: siphoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expenditures, the President handed on to Congress a report of the Social Security Board. Mr. Roosevelt warmly approved recommendations that old-age insurance payments be started in 1940 instead of 1942, that coverage be extended to some 16,000,000 uninsured workers. Though this liberalization of benefits would inevitably siphon off some of the eventual $47,000,000,000 reserve, as the Board intended it should, the President avoided direct mention of the reserve or of the Board's advice to stop hiking payroll taxes after...
About 130 feet in, the ceiling dipped into the water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon." Unwilling to stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with...
...heretics themselves are appalled: are building themselves Arks from the flotsam of the imagination, and hanging their viscera out for sails; they are trying to escape, choosing what is frugal rather than countenance the ferment here, where life bubbles with the effervescent rhapsodic idiocy of soda from the siphon...
When I returned from the movies tonight, my roommate squirted a siphon of water all over me. Not only that, the snake had covered my toothbrush with soap, and to finish off the dirty business, had carefully arranged Concord grapes all over my bed, so that when I got in I slipped back and forth and squashed the grapes until I felt like a jelly fish. I think he had been drinking...
...tell whether or not a woman was going to have a baby (TIME, Jan. 7, 1935). Called bitterling, the female fish has a small tube protruding from her underside. When the bitterling is about to lay eggs, the tube lengthens and enables her to deposit her ova in the siphon of a fresh water mussel, among whose gills they ripen and hatch. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer & Arthur Herman Klawans of the University of Chicago discovered that a bitterling will stretch her ovipositor, whether or not she needs to lay eggs, if her bowl of water receives...