Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ovary had produced a full-grown ovum and thus put her in the essential preliminary state for having a baby (TIME, Nov. 23). Such foreknowledge might guide a woman's conduct in case she did not want to have a baby. Professor Burr immediately denied that his "vacuum tube microvoltmetre for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena" provided any such useful domestic data. Disappointed were many good citizens-not all of whom were Roman Catholics-who prefer to practice birth control by periodic abstinence rather than by mechanical or chemical means. Last week Dr. Burr cheered such folk by effectively...
...maid used the vacuum cleaner this morning, again spoiling my chance of learning her name. She said, "Good morning, Mr. Clay, may I come in?" Which greeting was more cordial than any I have received from the people in this dormitory...
...opened last week, so many commercial broadcasting contracts had been signed by colleges all over the U. S. that none of them caused much comment. Atlantic Refining's program this year includes the schedules of 21 colleges, excluding Yale, whose home games will be sponsored by the Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. of New York. Ohio State, having held out against the trend (together with Minnesota, Princeton and Harvard, which still held out this year), finally succumbed-but not exclusively-to the Kellogg Co. (Corn Flakes), which also has contracts with the University of Oklahoma, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Nebraska and Fordham...
Several dozen U. S. hospitals have X-ray machines transforming 400,000 volts of electricity into X-rays for the treatment of cancer. Half-a-dozen have machines ranging from 600,000 to 1,200,000 volts. Last week the man most responsible for the development of vacuum tubes which accomplish those tremendous transformations of energy, Dr. William David Coolidge of General Electric Co., reminded the Fifth International Congress of Radiology in Chicago that Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a 5,000,000-volt generator which could be adapted for X-ray work, told them that an experimental...
...music in 100 Men & a Girl was actually played in Philadelphia by Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded in eight sound tracks instead of the usual one. The orchestra men who appear on the screen are simply Hollywood musicians going through the motions, with Stokowski presiding majestically over the vacuum. Deanna Durbin went East to record her songs before a single scene had been shot on the Universal...