Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iran stood on its dignity as a full-fledged member of UNO. But its intrinsic weakness was that of many small states, sovereign in name only, which became pawns of the great powers. It happened that Iran had a ruler whose amiable, feckless personality symbolized perfectly the political vacuum his once-great country had become...
...movie audiences, they believe that "anything is physically and materially possible, including perfect happiness. . . . [They are] a race of people who operate intellectually on the level of the New York Daily News, morally on that of Dayton, Tennessee, and politically and economically in a total vacuum...
Between the poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
...Town. The first night in Paris was a nightmare. I found myself in a complete mental vacuum. What did civilians talk about? What did they do? How did they act? As a matter of fact, were civilians people...
...High-vacuum techniques, which will benefit many industries...