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Mellon Hall living quarters of the statisticians will be vacated during the afternoon and evening Monday; next day the char force moves in armed with brooms, rags mops, to prepare the dorm for the following class--the 8th class--due from Miami about March...
...Stat School students are urged to assist the char force as much as possible by placing all trash they are leaving behind Monday in receptacles for same in the hallways and basement corridors. Be sure to take articles of enlisted clothing to the Supply Sergeant if you are not taking them with...
...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...
...church. The photographers poised their flashlight bulbs. The parson's wife stepped to an oil lamp and held the mortgage contract over the chimney. In less than a minute, one of the tidiest church mortgages in the country (from a banker's viewpoint) was a crisp char of expensive ashes. The First Congregational Church of Los Angeles was free of debt, and the banks and other mortgagors owned $750,000 less of the more than $500,000,000 they now hold in U.S. church mortgages...
...they give it life. It is encouraging to see two actresses, with storehouses of experience behind them, land parts that give them a chance to hit the boards with some real acting, not just sideline mugging. They both make the best of their opportunities, especially Miss Taylor, whose char-woman was one of the best, if not the best, performance of last year's Broadway season...