Word: vapor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...across. Scientists told newsmen the earth here was pushed downward ten feet by the explosion's force. Stumps of the four reinforced-concrete tower pillars that supported the bomb still stand in the crater, flaked and twisted. The rest of the tower has vanished into vapor...
...demand a very volatile fuel, Standard's fuel would seem to make about as much sense as dousing firewood with water. But Standard's engineers believe that their fuel has been made feasible by recent experiments with new types of engines in which liquid fuel (instead of vapor) is injected directly into the cylinders. At the high temperatures inside a cylinder (well above 105°) the new fuel vaporizes readily and develops as much power as straight 100-octane gasoline...
...student in Professor Stewart's party, observing from a plane at 9,000 feet, noticed an effect never seen before: a 15-mile-wide trail of condensed water vapor in the moon's shadow, apparently resulting from the sudden cooling of the earth's atmosphere. In England, physicists used radar to observe stratospheric electrical effects...
...Vapors. While Dr. Chang does not deny the existence of microbes, he operates on the basis of chi (vapors)-spring, summer, autumn and winter vapors which may enter the body and produce changes. A stomachache is often merely too much chi in the belly. For this Dr. Chang occasionally prescribes sneezing powder which releases the pressure pain from the stomach. The theory is the same as lifting the lid of a spouting tea kettle to release steam. After Western laxatives had failed to relieve a certain Cabinet member, Dr. Chang prescribed a herb to "heat the vapor of the spleen...
...explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...