Word: chute
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alfred L. Chute '41 will be the leader of a group which will leave Cambridge on January 25 for nine days skiing in Vermont and Canada. Five days will be spent at Saint Sauveur des Monts in the Laurentians before the group will turn back to Cambridge for the opening of the winter term...
...year's No.1 technological achievement owed nothing to war. But when Du Pont made nylon a commercial reality, they not only invaded the silk-hosiery business but gave Irving Air Chute Co. a new non-Japanese source of parachute cloth...
...Texas, from sophisticated Houston to the heart of the brush country, rodeos are supplanting baseball as a favorite Sunday pastime: big-time professional shows, semi-pro affairs put on by peewee promoters, local amateur meets, two-chute matches (popular with gamblers), all-Negro rodeos, kid rodeos, rodeos under floodlights...
...response to a growing demand, the staff of Widener Library is now preparing a new ultra-modern book chute where students may return books during the hours in which the Library is closed. Up until this fall there has been no method by which students could return books during the evening...
Located on the East front wall of the Library, the chute consists of rollers and a container for the books. When a certain number of books have been dropped into the chute, a photo electric cell connection is broken, lowering the floor of the container so as to make room for more volumes. After about 75 books have collected in the container, an automatic alarm summons the night watchman...