Word: cuffs
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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When a tank must be repaired, these standard precautions are regularly followed: The top part of the tank, which slides like a cuff or sleeve over the base, is lowered and the gas squeezed out until only 2% or 3% of gas is left in the tank. Then the top is raised and air sucked in. This procedure is repeated until the percentage of gas to air is only .004. Then the valves are shut off and the gas main is disconnected. There are, of course, lightning arresters and guards against smokers...
...friends of his, or people he would like to have for friends, with an inflection that first of all suits himself, however well it may also suit the public. When they call him a literary lackey he is artist enough not to mind. He snickers softly up his poplin cuff. The point has been missed, yet his work is good, it satisfies his Oriental sense of perfection and it sells enormously...
...Emerson and Appleby with growing displeasure watched a pitiful creature fall down stairs and get hit over the head and make grimaces, a lady (term used by courtesy) next them was overcome with paroxysms of joy. Tears made little canyons down her cheeks and spots on Mr. Hollisheimer's cuff. Finally she was reduced to a jellylike mass, from which issued increasingly faint gurgles as a gun went off in someone's face, or a man got run over by a trolley car. Mr. Hollisheimer gently closed her eyes, and she breathed more easily. Mr. Sever thinks he made...
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