Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notices immediately the industriousness of the people and the thorough job of cleaning up the war damage and done. Rotterdam, greatly devastated, is at the moment building several spiffy functional department stores to fill the grassy vacuum in the middle of the city. The fight against the sea continues; the canals are constantly dredged; and the whole Zuider Zee is being transformed into land...
...less a tradition is Winchester's almost complete rule by the boys themselves; the head of the school government, always one of the "scholars," has five or six assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire...
Routine. In Providence, charged with making improper advances to a housewife, Vacuum Cleaner Salesman John R. Marcos assured police that it was merely part of his sales technique...
...behind the panel hides a nightmare of pulsing, twitching, flashing complexity. Thousands of metal parts, big & little, all polished like costume jewelry, compete in frenetic activity. They hum and clack and chirp and roar like a hive of mechanical insects. Among them glow the filaments of 4,500 vacuum tubes, and between them run skeins of wire, 100 miles in all, with 400,000 soldered connections. The Mark III is so complicated that no one in the laboratory was willing to talk authoritatively about...
Mark III, a bakelite and steel instrument, is about 30 feet long and fifteen feet wide and weighs close to ten tons. It contains 100 miles of wire, about 4500 vacuum tubes for the electronic operations, 3000 relays, 2500 magnetic heads and play-backs to carry the information to and from the storage drums, and 400,000 solder connections. A staff of about 40 worked on the development and construction of the machine...