Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very dilatory and lazy tactics. Some days your editorials are very good, and other days they are very bad. There are often times when you say absolutely nothing. I have seen spaces in your editorial column where for as much as five or ten inches, there is a vacuum. At other times you clutter it up with playgoers and book-shelves and letters from the student body, such as this letter, and there is literally too much said on your editorial page. Nothing can be said against the news columns of your paper, which are written up in the best...
...Southern Cross did not fall into the sea. Clutching a vacuum bottle, "Bill" Taylor climbed out on a wing, braced himself against a strut, transferred oil from the starboard to the port tanks. When he had braved, the howling wind six times he had a gallon of oil, and the port motor started up again. Seven hours later Kingsford-Smith nursed his crippled ship back to Sydney. Haggard and drawn, he told newsmen: "Bill Taylor is the world's greatest hero. No other man could have done...
...domestic retail market while non-Rockefeller competitors like Texaco and British-controlled Shell could rove the whole union. In 1929 President Walter C. Teagle stepped out of bounds to acquire a company (Beacon Oil) with retail outlets in New England, province of Standard of New York (now Socony-Vacuum). Last month he put a subsidiary, Esso, Inc., on the heels of Edward G. Seubert of Standard of Indiana...
...greenhouse was designed by Dr. John Morris Arthur, who last week indulged in a bit of Utopian prophecy: "This new machine will let the suburban householder plug in his greenhouse just as he plugs in his vacuum cleaner. It is almost foolproof in operation and all he will have to do is tend to his plants...
...means higher temperature, interfering with nearby coils and resistors. 2) Prime requisite for handling short waves is good insulation, which glass provides and steel does not. 3) Glass tubes are not fragile but rugged, almost foolproof, used in millions of cars and trucks on all kinds of roads. 4) Vacuum is preserved better in glass than in metal. 5) Transparency of glass facilitates inspection, often betrays faulty operation at a glance...