Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chamber, small, smart Mayor Eugene Swartz and his suave police chief, Millard Matovina, braced themselves against a fluted column for the onslaught. Only 30 or so in the crowd managed to get into the room, but they could hear the ominous rumble of the rest outside...
Energy is not altogether spent outside, however. That Kirkland should excell in that nebulous thing called "House spirit" is due more than anything else to the interest. Deacons take in their domain. The bi-monthly concerts of chamber music in the Common Room have become well known in the University. Ond the Deacon's Testament has achieved fame as the only House yearbook...
...waterborne jet works on much the same principle as the airborne ramjet. It consists of a roughly cylindrical chamber with openings at both ends. As the engine moves forward, water comes in the front opening and is mixed with a "water reactive propellant." A "surface tension depressant" (wetting agent) is injected into the water too, presumably to help the fuel mix with the water stream or to help bubbles form...
...contact with water, e.g., metallic potassium, sodium, white phosphorus, various metallic hydrides. Some of these can be used in convenient liquid form. When such fuels hit water, they decompose it violently by uniting with its oxygen, giving off heat and a large volume of hydrogen gas. The combustion chamber is shaped so as to make the expanding water-and-gas mixture shoot out the rear opening as a high-speed jet. The reaction from this drives the engine (and the torpedo) forward...
Grooming John Bull for his first day in Mauretania, Cheke warns him to expect callers and adds, "the president of the Chamber of Commerce . . . would resent being received by a young man wearing ... a bright green pullover." And Third Secretary Bull had best adjust to being familiarly called "John" by embassy colleagues; "after a day or two ... he may return this vulgar compliment...