Word: vacuum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...State in 1934. He began his career as a page in the Michigan Legislature. Later he became a 32 degree Mason, a Shriner, an Odd Fellow, a Maccabee. an Eagle, and finally Secretary of State. One vice he has: coffee, which he drinks all day long from a vacuum bottle. Last week his vacuum bottle had to be refilled many times a day as he sat in his home at Grand Ledge, twelve miles from Lansing...
...defensive attitude. They cultivate a contempt for precision and a horror of practicality. Thus the scientists, seeing artistry in this artificial light, become more firmly satisfied of their own essential correctness. Between the arts and the sciences the gulf widens. Literary men and philosophers recede further into their pleasant vacuum of impracticality; while scientists, penetrating ever deeper into the structure of matter, also lose connection with the deeper problems of life...
...weeks ago Standard Oil of New Jersey called $90,000,000 in debentures by paying off $8,000,000 with surplus cash, selling $37,000,000 worth of notes privately, borrowing $45,000,000 from the banks. Shell Union called $26,000,000. Last month Socony-Vacuum laid plans to retire through bank loans $28,000,000 in bonds after paying $1,000,000 in maturities. Last week potent Gulf Oil announced it would retire $41,582,000 outstanding in bonds of a subsidiary, Union Gulf Corp. Financial pundits expected the bonds to be redeemed with borrowed money...
...friend Ferdinand Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards for help. Dr. Brickwedde obtained a gallon of liquid hydrogen, evaporated it to one cubic centimetre, bottled it, sent it to Dr. Urey at Columbia. Dr. Urey and George Murphy, his associate, put the precious drop in a vacuum tube, shot an electric current through it until it glowed brightly, split up the light with a diffraction grating. Three years ago this week, on Thanksgiving Day, they found the spectrum lines of heavy hydrogen exactly where they had predicted...
...with other manufacturers. It makes parts for radios, watches, clocks, electric fixtures, razors, surgical instruments, automobiles, oil burners, typewriters, umbrellas, overalls, suspenders, locomotives, bicycles. Its own line, beside buttons, includes pipes, rods, sheets, plumbing fixtures, electric motors, blow torches, bolts, screws, nuts, food-mixers, condenser tubes, soda fountain equipment, vacuum cleaners, divers' helmets, 80% of the world's tire valves, 55% of all U. S. pins...