Word: denning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plot: A Pocatello, Idaho madame, wronged in youth, sits in the centre of a web of rootin', tootin', shootin' lawlessness. Her name is Salt Chunk Mary. But although she conducts a thieves' den and liquor saloon, Salt Chunk is violently opposed to white slavery, has a 14-karat heart. To her resort comes a youthful badman who soon pokes his neck in the shadow of the gallows. Salt Chunk, drawn to him by some strange fascination, makes him promise to go straight, helps him escape with the sweetheart he has picked up in her place, dies...
With new experimental equipment already installed, the recently opened applied mechanics laboratory of the Engineering School will concentrate on photographic measurement of the elasticity of various substances, it was learned yesterday from J. P. Den Hartog, director of the laboratory...
Other methods of measuring stress are being worked out by Mr. Den Hartog and his assistants, which involve the use of membranes, electricity, and water. The results of these stress experiments are expected to be of practical value in large building projects, enabling engineers more accurately to determine the strains which may be withstood by skyscrapers and dams...
...befitted his wealth and inclination, the good man's library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head pore and ponder, for shortly, as one learns there befell "a sad infirmity, the loss of understanding and reason, which had been growing on her by occasion of giving herself wholly to reading...
Somebody asked Hu Flung Huey to the Lions' den the other day, but I wouldn't go. Arrived safe in wretched town of Cambridge last night. Prognosticate 35-6 victory for the Crimson today if Sigel's wings are clipped. I want my quarter back when Danny runs past the goal Lion. In Casey finds a Hallowell on the other side, hide Hardy...