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...dividing partitions throughout the building have been constructed of cinder concrete blocks which have a sound-absorbing effect that will be of great value in this type of building. In addition to the acoustical value of these blocks, they possess great tensile strength and a peculiar toughness which permits a flexibility of use for laboratory work...
...should pull 80 cars of freight. Hence his nickname, coined to his initials. Idolized by employes, he once issued an order to the entire payroll of 100,000 saying that any one who wanted to see him had only to make himself known at his office. Known as a "cinder railroader" he nevertheless does not chew, smoke or swear. "You can run a railroad without cussing," said...
...season will open officially this afternoon with a meeting of all candidates. University and Freshman, in the Briggs Cage at 3 o'clock. At that time Coach Jaakko Mikkola and E. C. Haggerty '27, who will have charge of all track work this year, will meet all aspirants for cinder fame...
...make St. Augustine (oldest U. S. city) and St. Johns County, Fla., one place "in which there would be no poverty, no preventable suffering, no unattended medical cases and no avoidable diseases." As a starter, he gave the Florida Normal & Industrial Institute (coeducational Negro school) a gymnasium, a cinder track, a swimming pool...
...Allen did a miracle. He brought with him an instrument which consisted of an ebonite stick to which were fastened two slips of gold leaf. It was an electroscope. This electroscope he rubbed with a piece of cat's fur and slowly waved over the hospital's cinder heap. By and by the gold leaf dropped. Professor Allen immediately sifted the indicated cinders and with a forceps picked up the lost tube of radium. It had been thrown into the furnace with dirty bandages, as he had suspected...