Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eastern boundary of Cleveland, conspicuously painted with glistening aluminum, stands one of the strangest hospitals on earth. The main building is a steel sphere 64 ft. in diameter, the height of a five-story apartment house. At the base, like garden slugs under a puff ball, are two horizontal steel tanks the size of bungalows. All three structures are built to withstand the force of compressed air in which Dr. Orval James Cunningham, the designer, has his patients live...
...point where it will have no liberty of thought or action is insufficient unless there is a substantial improvement during the coming winter. Unless unemployment is appreciably reduced, unless private capital is loosed from the present confines of fear and uncertainty, and supplements government financing in the sphere of public works and elsewhere, labor will make itself heard again. Every time labor is persuaded to behave itself, it does so more grudgingly than before, provided it cannot see of its own accord the fruits of submitting to such persuasion...
...Undergraduates' Laundry which last year divided the sphere formerly occupied by the Students' Laundry and pressed the latter organization hard, now finds itself in competition with three new student enterprises. College Service and the Student Enterprise are two new competing organizations which offer a variety of services but which depend chiefly on laundry and pressing, while a third group, the Students' Discount Society, will offer considerable but less definitely direct competition...
...object is an oyster shell containing an imperfect pearl built around the remains of an eel. If the pearl substance had been fashioned into a perfect sphere, says Mr. DeMille, the result would have been the largest, most valuable pearl in history...
...glass sphere with tubular extensions on opposite sides, the Ignitron is an ordinary mercury vapor lamp except that the electrodes are the pool of mercury in the bottom of the sphere and a graphite pole above it. When struck by the bullet, the copper wire closes a switch which passes electric current to the mercury. A spark then leaps between pool and pole. The flash lasts...