Word: basements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More mechanical irregularities, too, intrude upon the smooth functioning of the Department. There should be a comprehensive library lodged in the Music Building. Adequate practice room and sufficient victrolas could be well placed in the unused space in the basement. Finally an increase in the budget should be voted to provide for assistants drawn form the ranks of talented graduates desirous of continuing their studies under practical conditions...
...poser last week. In a shallow grave in an orange grove near Tel Aviv was discovered the moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictographs. Leading from the basement to the orange grove was a 400-yd. tunnel...
...themselves, with long rows of little green apples, each hanging from its own hook. These insects are caught by nailing corrugated paper board to apple trees. The moth larvae think this material is bark, dig in. Their cages are hung with purple cellophane to simulate twilight. In the greenhouse basement is the Japanese beetle division. This handsome insect, whose U. S. infestation is spreading from a focus in New Jersey, is prone to go on hunger-strikes in captivity, avoid the sprayed plants which the researchers want them to eat. The strike is broken by shining a powerful light...
...laboratories, built by the black crude oil that bubbles richly under the East Texas soil. Natural gas heated the individual classroom radiators in the Consolidated School. Whether it had leaked, in its odorless and highly explosive form, from a radiator or whether it had seeped into the unfinished school basement from the soil, no one seemed to know. The superintendent, a lean Texan of 61, sleepless and stunned by the death of his own 17-year-old son Sam, had no explanation...
...dynamite discovered in the ruins caused a momentary stir. Superintendent Shaw revealed that "to save about $250 or $350 a month" a connection had been installed by the school janitor to take natural gas from the nearby waste line of the Parade Oil Co., pipe it through the basement to the radiators. Parade officials denied they had given the school permission to make the connection. Mr. Shaw replied that the oil company did not "particularly object." A University of Texas expert, Dr. E. P. Schoch, explained that "if only one of the 72 3/8 in. connecting pipes through the basement...