Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...darkly: "It is nothing short of amazing that you have regulatory laws to meet a situation and yet do nothing about it. As we are well aware some people do not like law and order but we must nevertheless have it. What a wicked waste it is to tap resources today that will be sorely needed and that will bring top prices tomorrow! 'Hot oil' . . . has brought about a world oil situation which amounts to paralysis of the industry...
...commits suicide, dies of hears failure, or is killed by accident, an ambulance rushes his corpse to Sklifassovsky Institute for Urgent Aid where one of Surgeon Sergius Judin's aides quickly straps the body to a see-saw table, tilts it head down, drains the blood through a tap in the jugular vein. A small quantity of blood is set aside for laboratory study while the rest, treated with potassium citrate, goes into cold storage. Surgeon Judin, who perfected the storage of blood in wholesale quantities and arranged for the gathering of donor corpses, has revived moribund patients with...
...Manager Marshall of the Drake did likewise. Hotelman Byfield still had his beauteous second wife, four children, salaries as hotel manager under the receivership and as president of a solvent subsidiary, College Inn Food Products Co. Hotelman Marshall had his gay pink house on Lake Michigan, his ship-cabin tap room, a handsome table that sinks through the floor and a Ming bed that holds seven people comfortably...
Professor Fairhall was doubly confident of his information. He had soaked squares of the silk in body secretions (perspiration, saliva, urine) and in other fluids with which silk garments might touch (distilled water, tap water, salt water). None of the lead in the silk dissolved...
Fancy Hole. President Carl Ewald Grunsky of the California Academy of Science died last week just before he was to suggest that, if all mankind cooperated, they might dig a hole through the 200 miles of earth's crust and tap tremendous heat and gas imprisoned under 900,000 Ib. pressure per square inch...