Word: containers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will also be an Interhouse Track Meet on Wednesday, May 19, according to Samborski. Not open to Varsity cindermen, it will not contain any race longer than the mile, and some of the events may be modified from the regular Varsity schedule depending on how many men turn...
Rinban Masuyama is currently busy with plans for a $60,000 temple for his San Francisco flock, to contain in its cornerstone a pinch of Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief...
...lungs are bigger than women's. Their weights range from 2 lb. (women) to 3 lb. (men). At full inspiration the lungs contain about 5 qt. of air. At every normal breath 1 pt. of air goes in & out of the lungs...
...vertical examination of atmospheric conditions rather than a horizontal survey at Earth's surface. On five days during the previous week the Washington office received upper air data from Harvard's Blue Hill Observatory, where small sounding balloons were sent up with radio-meteorographs. These little gadgets contain a thermometer, hygrometer (humidity recorder), barometer, shortwave radio transmitter and batteries, encased in a streamlined aluminum shell, the whole weighing about 2 lb. One of the balloons went up 12 miles. In Washington it was observed that a storm had penetrated that far into the stratosphere-or rather, that...
...days. In July gas shells constituted half of all German projectiles fired. Their factories could not keep up with this ravenous demand and a shortage ensued which greatly facilitated the victorious advance of the Entente armies. When the Armistice was signed. German ammunition dumps were found to contain less than 1% of mustard gas projectiles...