Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transmitter consists of a parabolic reflector, at whose butt end is an enormous vacuum tube. The tube sets like the heating element of the common portable electric heaters. The heater's reflector is basin-like. Dr. Kolster's radio reflector is so vast (20 feet across the rim) that it resembles a funnel...
...Author. More interested in mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...
...White House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
Broom corn grows in sandy Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma soil. It is still a valuable crop, despite vacuum cleaners' wide use. The U. S. crop this year is worth about $4,000,000. Last week growers set up a cry; they need harvest hands at once, else the crop may be spoiled...
Diagnosis. Forecaster Mitchell of the U. S. Weather Bureau spoke of hurricanes. "They are probably gentle little eddies of air at first," he said, "but gather momentum owing to differences in temperature and air pressure until they become gigantic whirls, sucking air toward their central vortices like gargantuan vacuum cleaners." Caribbean hurricanes of more or less violence are common near the autumnal Equinox. Last week's winds were reported to have attained at times the unusual velocity...