Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Consumers. In consumer durables, there was a decrease in production of autos (239,000 v. 241,000 in August), trucks (down 13%), gas ranges (10%), electric ranges (7%), and domestic radios (12%). There were increases in the number of sewing machines (up 21% over August), vacuum cleaners (12%), refrigerators (7%), and electric irons...
...concepts through revised experimental methods, President Conant traced for his audience, by means of lantern slides, the seventeenth-century development of the air pump by Torricelli, von Guericke, and Boyle. The perfection of this simple mechanism resulted in a complete revision of the traditional concepts of atmosphere as a vacuum to the modern one of a weighable and elastic entity...
...innocent government major threaded his way to crafts Physics Laboratory to beard the scientific mind in its lair, yesterday. Slide rules glowered at him and vacuum pumps threatened him with exhaustion. Quietly he slipped into the office of Howard H. Taken, keeper of the University's mathematical mechanical brain, said by many to feed on classics concentrators, and sat down to chew his nails...
That democracy cannot function in a vacuum of public indifference must have become painfully apparent to all interested parties after Thursday's Student Council election. Coming as it did after three months of the most intensive publicity the Council has ever received, the election nevertheless failed to attract even the ballots of more than half the eligible voters, and from results, a serious percentage of those seem to indicate a lack of any genuine interest in the struggling student government...
...would have to blast through the tunnels at fantastic speed. (One.rumor said 3,500 miles an hour.) To simulate conditions in the outer atmosphere, the whole works would have to be cooled nearly to absolute zero (-459.72° F.) and the air pressure inside reduced almost to absolute vacuum...