Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Painter Jackson died and was succeeded by slight, handsomely greying Harry Noyes Pratt, onetime editor, art student, poet (Mother of Mine & Other Verse, 1918) and director of a historical museum in Stockton, Calif. Director Pratt's first purchase was a vacuum cleaner, with which he took up two and one-half pounds of dust in his own room alone. Next thing he did was to clean and space the Crocker paintings, which had been jammed on the leaking walls like one-cent stamps on a special delivery letter. Then Director Pratt put on his old clothes...
...runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts in 1,400 to 3,000 gal. of HCl. Rushing through a two-inch tubing, the acid eats into the | limestone so fast that it creates a partial vacuum at the top of the line...
...debentures; by Burlington Mills, $3,150,000 in common stock; by Fruehauf Trailer Co., $1,500,000 in debentures; by Wilson & Co., $6,500,000 in debentures; by Inland Steel Co., $10,000,000 in bonds. June underwritings included a $75,000,000 debenture issue by Socony-Vacuum, $15,000,000 in Safeway Stores debentures...
Just as nature abhors a vacuum so the law abhors a vacant ownership of anything. In the U. S. the States are the original and ultimate proprietors of all lands within their jurisdictions. And the ancient feudal doctrine of Escheat or accidental reverting of lands to the original lord has been applied in modern law not only to lands but to personal property, unclaimed savings deposits, dividends, and securities. Most laymen and many lawyers think of escheat only when persons die without wills and heirs. Last week smart lawyers all over the U. S. eyed with admiration a lawsuit filed...
Fifteen times every minute a suction pump creates a slight vacuum within the respirator. This lifts Fred Snite's chest and pulls one pint of fresh air into his lungs. When the pump releases the vacuum, his chest falls and he exhales. Every time the machine inhales for him, the rubber ruff hugs his neck, and it was a long time before he learned to ignore the sensation of being throttled 21,600 times a day. Another annoyance to be ignored was the incessant throbbing of the pump. But he quickly learned to control his tongue and prevent...