Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beira, Monday. A lion has again made its appearance on the golf links here. It was heard twice last week. The spoor was also found near the nth hole. It is thought the animal has been outlawed by others and is now looking for food and water. Members of the club are seriously contemplating carrying a rifle in their golf bags...
...week, Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard, Clark University rocket inventor (TIME, July 29), disclosed his invention of a sun engine. His laboratory model consists of a parabolic mirror one foot in diameter, which focuses sunlight upon a hollow glass sphere five-eighths of an inch in diameter. The sphere contains water and finely divided carbon. The focused light passes through the clear water without heating it. But when the light strikes the opaque carbon, the carbon heats almost instantly and in turn heats the water, which turns to steam. The steam escapes through a hole in the top of the sphere...
...week a mirror 20 feet in diameter focusing on a boiler with a fused quartz base. The boiler would contain, instead of pulverized carbon, mercury sprayed continuously at the focus point of the reflected light. The mercury spray would turn instantly to mercury vapor and in turn vaporize the water which would operate a steam turbine. The turbine would operate an electric generator. Efficiency of such a sun engine would be 50% of the sun energy fused.* Professor Goddard calculates that such an engine would produce 30 h.p. while operated under a clear sky between...
...undergraduates of Harvard threaten to take young Cohen in charge and to give him the "water cure" before he brings further discredit upon the venerable institution at which he is an accredited student...
...advocated extreme measures outside the law, but--well there are a lot of Socialists to whom a generous treatment of water would do a world of visible good. --Cambridge Evening Journal...