Word: vapor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. In order to join the select company of Hu Flung Huey, Michael Mullins, and others, candidates will go through a six week competition in which they must prepare to acquire the scent for news, follow the elusive vapor to its source, and report the results in readable prose...
...leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
...first tried gauze netting (using a small artificial cloud in his laboratory), but the tiny droplets went through his net. He decided to apply electricity: he put two gauze disks in a glass tube, created a potential of 30,000 volts between them, succeeded in condensing all the cloud vapor in his tube...
...went to 40-year-old Robert Gwathmey, art teacher at Manhattan's Cooper Union, for a postery agricultural study called Hoeing. Third prize of $500 went to 28-year-old John Rogers Cox for White Cloud, a stylized, theatrically lighted farm scene under a lone, spectacular cumulus vapor...
...which is fired from a .50-caliber machine gun, is that it can blow up an enemy aircraft's self-sealing gasoline tank. Earlier in the war the self-sealing tank was good insurance against old-style tracer bullets. By preventing leakage of fuel and formation of explosive vapor, the tank nullified the tracer. But the new bullet explodes in the pierced fuel tank, starts a chemical fire of intense heat and spreads a sheet of flame several feet in diameter...