Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor Haile Selassie I made a last desperate effort to forestall an Italian invasion by offering to "rent" as much as half of Ethiopia to a big U.S. or British oil company. An agent for Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. promptly signed up. As such a concession might involve the U.S. in just the kind of international complications the Emperor wanted, the State Department forbade Standard to take it up. But Ethiopian oil rights still looked like a plum...
Twenty years ago he himself made headline news with his own experiments with atomic power, and The Literary Digest carried a long report on how Dr. Wendt had released atomic energy by bombarding tungsten in a vacuum tube at a temperature six times as hot as the sun and transmuting some of the tungsten into helium...
...past century, divided China has been a power vacuum into which the great nations rushed toward conflict. For the past decade Japan has filled more & more of that vacuum...
...keep Germany from making war again was the central question at Potsdam. To destroy Germany utterly and forever might put Europe back a century economically and leave a political vacuum into which Big Three rivalries would rush. To preserve the old Germany was to run an all-too-familiar risk...
...cavity, a 1/50th-inch nozzle jets a sharply focused blast of fine aluminum oxide particles at 90 pounds pressure per square inch. The jet travels at the rate of 2,000 feet per second. The particles grind the tooth while the air pressure keeps it cool. Another nozzle, on the vacuum-cleaner principle, sucks in the abrasive particles as soon as they have done their work...