Word: tamping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been obtained by Linde Air Products Co. and Air Reduction Co. during the fractional distillation (selective boiling) of liquid air, and sold to academic laboratories for $100 a litre if pure, $15 a litre if mixed. Argon or nitrogen at low pressure are the usual fillers for electric tamp bulbs manufactured in the U. S. In Europe, however, krypton-filled lamps have been manufactured by Philips Glowlamp Works of Holland and other companies for about three years. Krypton lamps cost 75?, compared to 25? for argon lamps, but their sponsors claim that a 40-watt krypton lamp sheds...
...Mansion was well removed from that part of town which was ruined by oil derricks when the Oklahoma City field was discovered in 1928. In fact a law forbade oil drilling in that section. Yet one morning last fortnight Governor Marland was awakened by the monotonous tarnp-tamp-tamp of drills sinking a test well in an unprotected area just across the street from his Mansion...
...crazy, but tired and stunned, was the woodcock which flew against a window of the Columbia chemical laboratory. It was rescued by Professor Arthur Warren Hixson, who identified it, took it home, let it tamp for worms in his garden until it had recovered strength to fly on. Professor Hixson has seen many another migratory bird at Columbia (hawk, merganser, sandpiper), believes they are attracted by the green of the campus, get lost among the buildings...
Since all the "Baby Fascist" wanted was advertisement, he consented to use old-fashioned muzzle-loaders. Confessed one of the seconds later, "We didn't put in much powder, we didn't tamp it down and we put in the bullets loosely, as you might...