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The nearest any of us get to space-suits was that at various times I had charge of the laboratory's cold-room end altitude chamber in which pressure suits were sometimes tested.
Archive 2008-08-01 Chris Perridas 2008
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The nearest any of us get to space-suits was that at various times I had charge of the laboratory's cold-room end altitude chamber in which pressure suits were sometimes tested.
Antiquarian Weird Tales: L Sprague de Camp (1950) Chris Perridas 2008
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"The funds received helped in purchasing a new seven-seater vehicle to transport patients, a large cold-room, a backup generator to supply electricity in case of power failure, laundry equipment and a geyser to supply hot water to patients 'wards,"
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Our helmets were on the floor of the cold-room, where we'd dropped them during the struggle.
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In our cold-room, Big Guy made the Naguchis remove their suits.
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But they dragged her, still bound and gritting her teeth to keep back tears, into the cold-room.
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Their images were reflected in so much stainless steel Lillehammer could believe he was in the cold-room of a morgue.
The Kaisho Lustbader, Eric 1983
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I even had a notion of trying to light a fire in the galley and cooking over it some of the beef or mutton that I had found in the cold-room; but I gave that up, just then, because I really was too hungry to wait until I could carry through so large
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The steamer that I had come aboard of proved to be French; and that she had not long been abandoned I knew by finding an abundance of ice in her cold-room and a great deal of fresh meat there too.
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The squad underwent cold-room sessions twice daily for a fortnight, going in five at a time and then training immediately afterwards.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Jonathan Liew 2011
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