Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receiving his gold medal last week, Dr. Coolidge brought out upon the platform an astonishing tangle of insulators, wires, supports, switches, a huge induction coil-equipment for supplying 350,000 volts. In his hand he held, a glass vessel, five feet long, bulging in the middle. This was a vacuum tube, made portable so that it could be attached to an exhaustion pump in any laboratory. Into one neck ran the usual filaments to conduct electric current. These filaments ended in electrodes, of which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current...
...Early types of artificial refrigerators and ice-making machines employed electric vacuum pumps, cooling by diminished pressure. Last week, at Danbury, Conn., two persons were asphyxiated by methyl chlorine escaping from an artificial refrigerator...
...Earl, of whom it has been said that he does not know a vacuum tube from a tuning condenser, once served during three years (1922-25) as Captain of His Majesty's Gentlemen-at-Arms, the theoretical guardians of the Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...
...have features which may be termed new: Buick. "The artistic upholstery and interiorware patterns in the beautiful new Fisher Bodies for 1927, were created especially for Buick . . . the finishes on the new Buicks are in Coronation tones, the year's smartest custom effects . . . for the first time a vacuum- cleaned crank case to protect closed car passengers from engine fumes." Cadillac. Five hundred color combinations, 50 body styles and types. Chevrolet has centralized throttle and spark control and automatic stop light on all closed models; brighter, more striking Duco colors; new motor mounting; new camshaft. Nash has refined motor...
Where indeed? Author Bakeless, scanning well the entire globe, presents a dispassionate exposition of the expansion problems of Japan, Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...