Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...morning for his nine o'clock with the tragic assurance that he will return to find a smooth, even coat of the vital principle spread over his table-top, his "English Composition," and his haberdashery. The suggestion that for that venerable engine of superficial sanitation,--the broom, the electric vacuum cleaner might be substituted, will doubtless be met with the objection that the change would be financially impractical. The answer is that even one vacuum cleaner would suffice for each dormitory. Every room could be cleaned in turn once a week, and on the other six days the broom would...
Sparkling among the reforms for 1915-16 that ought to be seized and hoisted to a practical plane is that which calls for the substitution of electric vacuum cleaners for the brooms that have heretofore and hitherto been strangled in the grasp of the college goodies. A new broom sweeps clean, it is granted, but the argument peters out with that concession. Whereas a vacuum cleaner not only sweeps clean but it carries away the dust in its carburetor or gas bag or whatever the receptacle is officially dubbed. That is the sharp point in favor of the cleaner...
...same length of time. The goal umpires have not yet been selected from the list of 5000 applicants. Every thing considered, the game promises much, and tomorrow that old time favorite "the fool who rocked the boat" will have a first class sidekicker in the modern exponent of vacuum "the man who bet on the Lampoon...
...detail on another page this morning, is that there is a surplus of nearly twenty-eight thousand dollars, more than twice the amount of the deficit which resulted at the end of the preceding year. And this surprisingly large surplus has been accumulated in spite of the huge vacuum in the treasury at the beginning of the year and in spite of the fact that the outlay for the maintenance of athletics was in many departments greater than ever before. This signal attainment is the direct result of more efficient, more practical management which has effected, at the same time...
...development of a new military and naval program. This newly-proposed scheme to infuse greater activity into our army and navy may seem, at first blush, inconsistent with our declared policy of seeking a peaceful solution of international differences. If we were to examine the two pellicles in a vacuum, it must be admitted that they would appear diametrically opposed. But, if we take them out of this purely artificial atmosphere, and examine them in the light of their application to present day international problems, we must at once see the great interest which to United States has in armament...