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...triangular tensions, like an airplane. A square house piles up air pressure on the windward side, creates a vacuum on the leeward side, thus sucking the heat out. The streamlined house slides the wind off, fills the leeward vacuum space, saves heat, requires less resistance to wind stress. A cone on the housetop lets in air which settles evenly down in a slow draft...
...traffic through Denver, but until it does the city remains at a random spot on the broad bench east of the Continental Divide. The foothills begin ten miles west, the plains region stretches east to the Missouri River. Sixty miles to the south is Pike's Peak, a truncated cone up whose flanks automobiles race every Labor Day. Isolation is a blessing to Denver now that it is grown up. It is dominant and self-sufficient in a vast area, 555 miles from Salt Lake City...
President Hoover whacked the Shipping Board down from seven to three members. Surviving this economy were Commissioners Thomas Ventry O'Connor, Samuel S. Sandberg and Rear Admiral Hutchinson Ingham Cone...
Professor William Vernon Cone, 35, neuro surgeon, who went to McGill from Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital in the wake of Dr. Penfield...
...pound semi-final bout between S. H. Forbes '34 and A. B. Sullivan '34; 125-pound final bout between T. J. Curtin '34 and Leslie Williams '33; 145-pound semi-final bout between G. M. Ferguson 3G. and G. M. Gaetan '32; 145-pound semi-final bout between Abraham Cone '34 and R. R. McGoodwin...