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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

  • 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

  • "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,"

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Our helmets were on the floor of the cold-room, where we'd dropped them during the struggle.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • In our cold-room, Big Guy made the Naguchis remove their suits.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • But they dragged her, still bound and gritting her teeth to keep back tears, into the cold-room.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • 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

  • 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

    In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

  • 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.

    In the Sargasso Sea A Novel 1881

  • 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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