Word: venting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ocarina" is fixed horizontally to a vertical reservoir of replacement fluid. As the machine rotates and produces a centrifugal force up to 650 times gravity, the corpuscles settle out of the blood. Replacement fluid flows into the "ocarina" chamber, dilutes the original fluid which flows off through a vent. In a first test of 15 minutes Col. Lindbergh demonstrated that only a fraction of 1% of the original fluid remained in the "ocarina,'' that the remaining, washed corpuscles were uninjured and available for Dr. Carrel's study...
...strident Californian voice of Senator Hiram Johnson rolled out imperiously across the well-filled Senate chamber. In his hand he held a speech, too important to be delivered from memory. His white crest quivered with indignation and behind his spectacles his blue eyes gleamed resentfully. He was about to vent the full measure of his political bitterness, the full force of his distrust as as isolationist, and the full brilliance of disgruntled hindsight, upon the gentlemen who had conducted the country's international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee...
...late great Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany, was a sober man. When he laughed it was news. Several years ago bullet-headed Herr Stresemann lunched with his good friend Aristide Briand in Geneva and at one remark of Brer Briand's gave vent to a laugh that rattled the champagne glasses. What was the story? Reporters have wondered for years. Last week Sir Austen Chamberlain told the press what M. Briand said he said to his friend Stresemann...
Vexed, the Senatorial greybeards, who wanted to vent their angry words at once, promptly overthrew the Laval Cabinet by a vote...
...placed in other hands, the literary monthly has been left with more ample opportunity and attention less distracted to perform functions more important and fundamental, to publish the best of undergraduate writing, to allow the newest generation of authors to try its wings in print, to provide a healthy vent for the ideas and abilities of these aspiring writes, and to subject them and their efforts to a healthy criticism...