Word: fans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Kodaks in this number are of the average quality. The verse, a ballade on "A Fan, Painted by Wattean" and "Love and the Sea" are satisfactory, the ballade being somewhat the better...
...basement is all the machinery. This consists of a self-operating pump, a boiler and a fan. This latter mixes the cool air with steam and thus provides the room with a moist atmosphere. This fan is called a "Sturtevant blower." There is a duplicate one in Technology. The boiler is of about eight horse power and sixty pounds...
...numerous pegs, which are to be used for drying purposes, open to all. Connecting with the three floors is a dumb waiter, running up from the bath-rooms on the first floor, by means of which clothing can be raised or lowered to the different floors. A large revolving fan is fixed in the basement, by which air, either hot or cold, is conducted through the building, there being no steam pipes. The plumbing, which has been done by a Cambridgeport firm, is an admirable piece of work. The water in the rowing tank has been allowed...
...gnawing backwards with great rapidity into the plateau country above them. Landslides are thus produced, several of them being indicated both in the incipient stages of undercut and semi-detached masses, and later their catas trophic fall. The detritus carried by the torrent is opened out in a broad fan-delta of gentle declivity across the bottom of a wider valley of greater age: and the river of this valley is thereby pushed against the further slope, where it undercuts the bank, forcing the highway to the upland. The volcanie island and the coast line are not less instructive...
...almost equal to the present number of students; the large lecture rooms will seat nearly three hundred men each. The lighting arrangements are excellent, the small basement rooms being better lighted than most of the college buildings. The heating and ventilating system is perfect; in the cellar an enormous fan changes the air in every room in the building once in ten minutes, while the electric system makes the temperature self-regulating...