Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tap this current Rabinowitch arranged a simple device. "If now two metal electrodes are immersed in such a solution," he explained last week, "and if the liquid around one electrode is illuminated and the other is kept dark, the system becomes a galvanic cell in which chemical energy, formed by the conversion of light, is itself immediately converted into electrical energy." Galvanic cells and batteries-usually making current from the slow dissolving of zinc in sulfuric acid-are not uncommon, but Rabinowitch's is unique in that it will never wear...
Organized by a group of University psychologists interested in civilian morale, the Conference will outline the possibilities for youth service in defense and welfare work, and will compare the varied special services which the many groups have begun. Lastly, the meeting will attempt to evolve a plan to tap resources of youth labor in this area...
...University power station and heating plants can maintain a total reserve of 9,000 tons of coal in their bunkers, and 100,000 gallons of oil are on tap at the Medical School, the heating system of which was converted from coal some time ago. The burners, however, are equipped with special cones which may be used if necessary to burn powdered coal in much the same manner...
...Island in Puget Sound, the farmers' beach patrol was on watch, night after night, regardless of Senatorial questions and military reverses, with "an eye to the sky and an ear to the ground." The volunteer harbor patrol at Seattle, run by the man who was once the fastest tap dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare from...
...Yreka, Calif., citizens of five counties "seceded" from Oregon and California, elected a Governor, held a torchlight parade, carried signs reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...