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...high pressures are obtained in a tiny 'pressurized laboratory' which is a miniature hydraulic press. Naturally the size of the lab is restricted, because the wall must be heavy enough to withstand the pressures. Bridgman normally used a 'laboratory' that occupies a cylindrical space only half an inch in diameter and three inches long...
Because of its vast land mass, its self-sustaining peasant economy, its 5,000 miles of friendly Russian border, Red China may withstand limited economic sanctions. It can feed itself, after a fashion. It can maintain lightly armed armies on its own resources. With its arsenals (especially in Manchuria) unbombed and its overland supply lines to Russia open, it can probably prolong indefinitely the kind of war it is waging in Korea. But the U.N. embargo will deny Red China easy access to important warmaking materials, will burden her already strained industrial economy...
...than he used in the junior varsity race last week. In that race Lincoln got his second boat off to a very fast start against Yale and Princeton, and held a two-length lead for most of the event, but the Crimson could not get up its stroke to withstand a finishing sprint by the Elis...
MCMAHON: "Do you think that we are ready to withstand the Russian attack in Western Europe today...
Thousands of citizens (with the help of knowing contractors) had already constructed backyard shelters guaranteed to withstand anything short of Judgment Day itself. The CDA, which is doing one $75,000 research job on shelters, isn't sure yet what is really needed, but is certain that many a home-made job might well broil its occupants to a crisp or squeeze them like grapefruit...