Word: ceilinged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The House Chaplain, Rev. James Shera Montgomery, to whom the annual memorial service is his one big occasion, closed his eyes, upturned his face, lifted his clasped hands toward the ceiling and began : "Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open. . . ." A chord was struck on a small, cheap piano...
For ai-conditioning, Dr. Gorrie placed the ice in "an ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air...
Festooned with a maze of cables, wires, tanks, cylinders, hand-wheels, steel support frames bolted to the ceiling, a control board studded with dials, the underground laboratory looked something like the inside of a submarine. The Svedberg centrifuge's 7-in. disk rotates at 60,000 r.p.m., has a...
Mayor McNair declared a legal holiday. Businessmen in the Triangle were told to lock what doors they could reach, turn the keys over to Guardsmen. Bread sold at 30? per loaf, candles at four for $1. As night fell on the lightless city the flood was still rising. In the...
Hollis 17 still has marks left there by Colonial soldiers who stacked their guns for the night by the simple process of jamming the bayonet into the ceiling.