Word: vents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...producing automobile fumes in all cars manufactured for sale in California in 1961. The industry has discovered that hot gases from the exhaust pipe are not the main source of air pollution; smog is mainly caused by the oily vapors, principally hydrocarbons, that gather in the crankcase, are normally vented into the open air. The new device is a tube from the crankcase vent to the intake manifold. This carries the hydrocarbons through the engine, where they are burned up. Price: about...
...Seconds. First, Bond and Tuckfield checked the lights, emergency gear-and each other. Then Tuckfield opened a seacock, and the forward escape hatch began to fill with water. The men stayed at normal atmospheric pressure because excess air and their stale breath escaped through a vent line into the torpedo room. As the 68° water rose to their chins, Bond and Tuckfield shivered. With half a minute to go, the doctor gave the order and the chief opened a valve, letting air under 225 Ibs. pressure gush into the hatch. The outlet vent was closed. The air pressure zoomed...
...Constantine, 200 miles to the east, still seething over the killing by F.L.N. terrorists of three French youths and the kidnaping of a young girl (TIME, May 18), French settlers boycotted the local celebration almost to a man, gave vent to their anger at De Gaulle by jeering a column of weary soldiers returning from a long search in the hills for the kidnapers. And in Algiers, a mob of 500 students shouting "De Gaulle to the gallows!" ran afoul of truncheon-swinging police. "Unprovoked police brutality," snapped bearded Pierre Lagaillarde, who led the storming of the Government General Building...
Clouds was directed against the educational practices of the Sophists in general, and of Socrates in particular. The fact that Socrates was not a valid representative of the Sophists made no difference; a well-known whipping dog was needed, and fairness be damned. Ironically, Aristophanes could vent his aristocratic and antisocratic bias only in a highly democratic community that permitted slander, libel, blasphemy, and indecency. Socrates (played with gusto and the proper amount of eccentricity by Upton Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head...
...time of year to vent our petty grievances. Typing is not allowed on mid-year and final examinations. Too many courses give examinations. There are no STOP signs at the corner of Plympton and Bow Streets. The tennis courts are in deplorable condition. The food, even in Adams and Dunster Houses, is wretched. Only one appointment has been made in the field of Geography. There are no permanent appointments in History and Lit. The water coming from both the hot and cold taps in Moors Hall is hot. Elsie's is too crowded. Animals still roam the streets of Cambridge...