Word: deposition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not subscribed to the Album are reminded that the subscription price will be raised from $9 to $10 per volume on March 1. A three dollar deposit mailed by Saturday night will insure the $9 rate...
...have not subscribed to the Album are reminded that the subscription price will be raised from $9 to $10 per volume on March 1. A three dollar deposit mailed by Saturday night will insure the $9 rate...
...would however, avoid the stigma of narrow-mindedness. Numerous methods are possible for disposing of the offensive articles I take it for granted that no one considers them decorative. A goat tied securely in front of each entrance would be effective. Students might be requested to deposit their burnt matches and half-smoked cigarettes in the fill across the Charles where the Business School will one day stand. An exchange department might be established where second-hand cigarettes could be ransomed by the inch, one inch of Melachrino equals a Sweet Caporal for instance, and similarly for matches. The collections...
Smooth gliding Hispano-Suizas, Minervas, gracefully imperious Renaults, the more conventional Rolls-Royces have begun again to deposit their precious burdens at the sacrosanct portals of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, of the Auditorium, Chicago. Venerable gentlemen in the prosperous-seeming splendor of Prince Alberts and silk hats unlock doors and let down chains. First an excited jabbering line, clutching the arduously saved dollars of their admission, a shoving and a scurrying, and the standees find their places between the red plush rail an 1 the red plaster wall. They are admitted with a discreet promptitude to make...
...operation. It was found that if 1 part of tetraethyl lead were added to 1,000 parts of gasoline, the effect was to retard the explosions- providing one slower detonation instead of two more rapid ones. This improvement prevents "knocking" in ordinary engines and, to a large degree, the deposit of carbon in cylinders. It laid open the possibility of building a new and more efficient type of engine to use the new mixture-a type of engine which, using ordinary gasoline, would soon pound itself to pieces. But lead is a poisonous substance. Tetraethyl lead must be handled with...