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Yale threatened once late in the game, closing to 53-52 with three minutes remaining, but Tomasiewicz and the Tigers quickly extinguished any Eli flame with some blistering outside shots...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Princeton Tops Yale, 65-56; Wins Ivy Championship--Again | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

With each day's entry, Goebbels dutifully records the latest evidence of the Reich's impending collapse. Cologne is "a great city which has been turned into a heap of ruins," Dessau "a sheet of flame and totally destroyed. Yet another German city which has been largely flattened." The air war has become "a crazy orgy. We are totally defenseless against it. The Reich will gradually be turned into a complete desert." After receiving word on March 19 that Würzburg has been bombed, Goebbels laments: "So the last beautiful German city still intact has now gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Inside the G | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Most of the crew members from the ships took to lifeboats, but some leaped into the water; all but two were rescued. One of them was plucked out of the shark-infested sea by Harold Mockford, a fearless helicopter pilot who also flew through flame and smoke to save 13 men who had been trapped aboard the Venoil. The rest of the survivors were rescued by two passing British merchant ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Wreck of the Two Sisters | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...limiting the amount of oxygen reaching the wood; it also trapped the heat inside the combustion chamber so that it radiated more evenly throughout the room. Modern stoves have become even more efficient through airtight construction, the use of baffles that pass the hot air back over the flame to improve combustion (and heat) and in some cases thermostats and blowers that circulate the warm air. Although some heat is thereby lost, in many stoves the doors can be temporarily folded back, leaving a clear view of the dancing flames-as in a fireplace. A compromise between the Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Back-to-Wood Boom | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...hardwood burned in a sound stove will deliver as much heat as 166 gal. of #2 fuel oil (Massachusetts price: about 48? per gal.), or 6,290 kilowatt hours of electricity (about $330 worth), or 264 therms of natural gas ($97). No wonder Americans are returning to their old flame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Back-to-Wood Boom | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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