Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working furiously against the approaching winter's cold, the Maintenance Department has almost completed the installation of a steam-heat system for the gutter of Wigglesworth Hall. A long copper tube, running the length of the drain, will abolish once and for all the danger of falling icicles...
Promptly His Majesty asked Gold-Standardist Henri Jaspar to form a Cabinet. M. Jaspar at once tried to get as Finance Minister Belgium's squat old Copper King and No. 1 banker, M. Emile Francqui, stabilizer of the Belgian franc in 1926. Before the Cabinet slate was announced last week, Brussels proletarians heard that it would contain a director of the Liége National Arms Factory, began murmuring against "The Gun Makers' Cabinet...
...This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock (with a more prosaic appearance) electrically synchronized with the master every thirty seconds unlocks and resets...
Meanwhile in Vienna bronze casters and workmen of the firm of Julius Maschner & Son were working day & night to finish a 500-lb. copper and bronze coffin for the body of the murdered King. There was not time for an entirely original design but Julius Maschner & Son are used to rushing work. In existence for some 300 years, the firm has made coffins for Maria Theresa, the Empress Elizabeth, the murdered Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Emperor Franz Josef, the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the murdered Alexander Obrenovitch of Serbia. In the elaborate neo-Byzantine Kara-Georgevitch family tomb...
...Since then their results have been reproduced and extended in dozens of laboratories in a half-dozen countries, notably England, Italy, the U. S. Italy's Professor Enrico Fermi and his aids have coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium, copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, chromium, barium, fluorine, sodium, magnesium, titanium, zirconium, zinc, strontium, antimony, selenium, bromine...