Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last hours of the debate on the new filibuster rule, the nasal voice of Oregon's maverick Republican Wayne Morse sounded through the chamber: "I think a new de facto political party in America was founded on the floor of the Senate tonight . . . We shall see whether the future voting record in the Senate does not also indicate that in a large measure this coalition predicts what will happen to great pieces of social legislation in the 81st Congress...
Composer David Diamond will teach a seminar on American music. He has written four symphonies and other orchestral works as well as chamber music. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Julliard Publication Award, the Pederewski Prize, and the Prize of the American Academy in Rome...
...Department of Engineering Sciences has three more projects. Professor Frederick V. Hunt is studying sound in his anechoic chamber, whose walls sponge up over 99 percent of every noise. Professor Howard H. Aiken is building his fourth super-brain calculating machine, faster and smarter than before. Professor Howard W. Emmons is working in mechanics...
...January, he drained 99.999999 percent of the air out of the cyclotron in a vacuum test. The main chamber has to be free of air molecules when in operation, so that the spinning electrons won't bump into anything...
This event has two objectives. It gives the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce, which pays some of the participating teams' expenses, a chance to increase its tourist trade. On the other hand, rugger enthusiasts can play against the best opposition in the East...