Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealings in the several peace conferences. But it stops, and should stop there. It does not extend to the vacillating and contradictory U.S. policy in China-which is now in a state of unanimated suspension-or to the policy in Latin America-now operating in a vacuum created by Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
...past Nepal (54,000 sq. mi.) maintained regular relations only with Britain and with occasional visiting Chinese missions. But Britain's departure from India, Nepal's next-door neighbor, has already begun to create a political vacuum into which the U.S. is stepping...
Pickering designed a special loudspeaker which would give a pure tone when fed an electric current pulsing at A-frequency (440 cycles a second). He sealed in a vacuum a carefully compensated tuning fork that is kept vibrating electrically. An amplifying circuit picks up the vibrations, feeds them to the loudspeaker. The result: a loud, true A. It is not a very musical sound, for it lacks softening overtones, but it is accurate to one one-hundred-thousandth of a cycle...
...Iraq, the concessions are held by the Iraq Petroleum Co., which is owned by Anglo-Iranian Oil (23¾%); the British-controlled Royal Dutch-Shell (23¾%); Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum, through their jointly owned Near East Development Corp. (23¾%); the French Government through its Compagnie Française des Petroles (23¾%). The only individual is a mysterious Armenian financier, Calouste S. Gulbenkian, whose 5% gives him a distant claim to the title of the "world's richest...
...inventor, a Washington (D.C.) nurse named Adda May Allen, got the idea while watching premature babies at Columbia Hospital. She observed that sucking on a bottle often exhausted her little patients. As a partial vacuum develops in the bottle, a baby sometimes has to fight a collapsed nipple. Nurse Allen decided that what was needed was a bottle with collapsible sides which would close on the vacuum as the milk was drawn...