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... of 1972, on a secret military installation, Staff Sergeant Bellews is an expert on the latest scientific discovery: a way for ordinary machines like vacuums and lawnmowers to gather experience in their jobs, becoming error free over time. Then the strange broadcasts began to blow up transmitters everywhere. Were they from space? Enemies? the future? He didn't care until t...

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... his little finger. “Pretty light, eh? Aluminium and magnesium alloy and a vacuum inside. All these cushions stuffed with hydrogen. Foxy! The whole sh... ...light imitation leather, the very crockery was a light biscuit glazed in a vacuum, and weighed next to nothing. Where strength was needed there was th...

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...oduced in vacuo, which insured both its steadiness and its intensity. This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the lumi- nous arc was ... ...ike a bullet under the wa- ters, that is to say, it fell as if it was in a vacuum. Then all the electric force was put on the pumps, that soon began t...

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...rees avec surprise des voyageurs qui s’ecrient aussitot avec Horace: Ut mihi devio rupee et vacuum nemus mirari libet.’ The good man is not exactly ly...

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...n my buttery, and a drought in my cellar, and a void in my strong box, and a vacuum in my silver scullery.” “Lord Fitzwater,” cried one, “take heed ho...

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... machin- ery, and a battery of trained instincts, aptitudes, fill up their vacuum. I repeat, ma’am, why should young Captain Beauchamp spend an hour c... ...d from him or from them, for it flows off the pen as readily as it fills a vacuum. That posture of Renee displeased Cecilia and fascinated her. In an ...

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...and this has been incorporated completely into an artificial body. The body had been especially designed to cope with all environments; including the vacuum of space, but with the vital flaw of no propulsion system. The long held dream that Man could eventually conquer death had become a reality. Grailem and many others like him, are the prototypes for a new generation...

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...listening to me. I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth. Whimpering and truckling fol... ... all be? The most renown’d poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums. All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, (Di... ...rrying, The soul’s realization and determination still inheriting, The fluid vacuum around and ahead still entering and dividing, No balk retarding, n... ...nd is compact just as much as space is compact, And that there is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth—but that all is truth without exception...

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...won’t disappoint me.” I think; I would prove capable of `mothering` her during all the times to come. I am sure; she deserves it. It will make the vacuum filled in the life of both of us. So, let the Nature play its role; we should believe that it’ll happen for our good,” she assures self *** *** *** ****** More often than not, we feel like expressing `you aren’t l...

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...won’t disappoint me.” I think; I would prove capable of `mothering` her during all the times to come. I am sure; she deserves it. It will make the vacuum filled in the life of both of us. So, let the Nature play its role; we should believe that it’ll happen for our good,” she assures self *** *** *** ****** More often than not, we feel like expressing `you aren’t l...

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...actions on to the floor. Here we find Fleury’s Paradox of the Bulk- headed Vacuum—which we accept now without thought—lit- erally in full blast. The t... ...t is to say, up to the point when the blades make the air “bell”—cut out a vacuum for themselves precisely as over- driven marine propellers used to d... ...y used as a reinforce, is not run- ning; so the port and starboard turbine vacuum-chambers draw direct into the return-mains. The turbines whistle ref... ...wn pressure held in leash of spurred on by the lift-shunts; before it, the vacuum where Fleury’s Ray dances in violet-green bands and whirled turbillo... ...et-green bands and whirled turbillons of flame. The jointed U-tubes of the vacuum-chamber are pressure-tempered colloid (no glass would endure the str... ...green liquid that drains (you can hear it trickle) from the far end of the vacuum through the eduction-pipes and the mains back to the bilges. Here it... ...bs to work afresh. Bilge-tank, upper tank, dorsal-tank, expansion-chamber, vacuum, main-return (as a liquid), and bilge-tank once more is the ordained... ...pectives. You can hear the trickle of the lique- fied gas flowing from the vacuum into the bilge-tanks and the soft gluck-glock of gaslocks closing as... ...h our correspon- dent describes. Unfortunately, a chimera bombinating in a vacuum is, nowadays, only too capable of producing sec- ondary causes.- Edi...

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...re, and made it an economic, political and; as far as practicable, a moral vacuum; and as Nature, abhorring the vacuum, immediately filled it up with ... ...s modern cultural equip- ment; but if they had, their habit of living in a vacuum would have left them helpless end ineffective in public affairs. Eve...

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...e post–Cold W ar world as the globe’s pre- eminent military power. But the vacuum created by the sudden demise of the Soviet Union created fresh sourc...