Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into this vacuum has seeped a kind of radical spirit--hope. The Crimson meets M.I.T. this afternoon on the Business School Field and thoughts of victory are coming off the tops of many heads...
Harvard and M.I.T. announced this week that the Atomic Energy Commission is treating them jointly to a 6 billion-volt electron synchrotron, which will be built in Cambridge. Cost: $6,500,000. Its electrons will be steered around a circular vacuum chamber 236 ft. in diameter by 48 powerful magnets, each 11 ft. long, and they will be nudged to enormous speed by 16 radio-frequency circuits, each with the power of a full-scale television transmitter...
While they lunched, dark, handsome Neophytos Sophocleous, newest of the Cypriot servants, was at work vacuum-cleaning the Harding bedroom. Later, Sir John's Armenian housekeeper found Sophocleous standing between Sir John's and Lady Harding's twin beds, rewinding the electric cord on the machine. Why wasn't he vacuuming? Said Sophocleous: "I have done all that is necessary." That night, while his army patrolled the city in Land Rovers with Sten guns at the ready, Sir John slept a round eight hours...
...night of March 14 the sky over Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. was vacuum-clear with stars thick beyond it. At 1145 a.m. a slender Aerobee rocket rose from a launching tower, the bright flame of its exhaust dwindling to a spark and disappearing among the crowding stars. Then, when the rocket was 60 miles up, a new star bloomed in the sky, brighter than the planet Venus. Swiftly it grew, spreading in ten minutes to four times the diameter of the moon, and shedding half the full moon's brilliance. At this stage the glowing spot...
...Appliance-makers announced that January deliveries of major appliances were 2.8% ahead of December, with vacuum cleaners and ironers...