Word: storeroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...excited about magnets, and I remember discovering electric bells and batteries. With my allowance I bought a pound of wire, a battery and a bell--I guess I was fourteen. I made batteries with potassium dichromate dissolved in sulfuric acid. I had a little workshop in the storeroom. Once, to show the batteries, I carried them out on a tray and tripped; I spilled sulfuric acid all over the living room floor...
shrewdness famed And genius versatile . . . The poem's climactic, blood-bubbling passage emerges thus with Fitzgerald: From storeroom to the court they...
...thick, 6-in. concrete walls, and would be equipped with a handoperated air pump. After being properly stocked with food, said Doremus, it could house a family of six for six weeks. Doremus pointed out that in peacetime, the shelter could be put to use as a storeroom or photographic darkroom...
...salvagers had found "evidences that some of the men had lived for consider able periods and finally succumbed due to lack of oxygen." The three seamen, names unknown, had been trapped in a storeroom in the forward section of the ship, starboard side. With all power destroyed, they had no way to communicate with the world outside, to let anyone know they were still alive. They had access to fresh water and emergency rations, and they kept alive while the oxygen lasted. They had a calendar, and as each long day passed, bringing no help or hope of help...