Word: hazard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Comment. John L. Lewis has been President of the United Mine Workers for eight years. "One who holds no brief for the coal companies" (New York Herald Tribune) commented succinctly on the "gigantic conspiracies" alleged by Mr. Lewis, as follows: "Only a first-hand observer would care to hazard an opinion as to the methods used by both companies and unions in the mine wars of Pennsylvania and West Virginia; but one does not have to be an observer to feel that there is something wrong about this picture. An economic and social tragedy which has now lasted over...
Unfair newspapers headlined "Vote Slacker" when Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, suffragette and political matron, announced that she had never voted and never would until U. S. women should "place in the field" a Presidential candidate. Mrs. Belmont did not say whether or not the candidate would have to be a woman...
...side of the Hudson. Part of them blow fresh air into the tunnel floor through vents, others suck vitiated air through ducts in the tunnel ceiling. Thus they change the tunnel air completely 42 times an hour and but 56 of the fans are needed to do so. Fire hazard is prevented by watchmen stationed every few score feet; and there are tunnel fire engines at each entrance...
Experiments which may result in the elimination of the fire hazard from aviation are to be carried on this year in the mechanical engineering laboratory of the Engineering School. Professor L. S. Marks, who is in charge of the experiments, stated to a CRIMSON reporter that the substitution of a less inflammable, a cheaper, and a more abundant fuel for gasoline would be the object of the investigations...
...hardwood floors, a feature of the remodeling program, have replaced the worn boards that used to creak with the footsteps of the great. Steel staircases have been installed in place of their noisy wooden predecessors, and this step is expected to do much towards eliminating the old "firetrap" hazard. To the students living in these halls, the improvement is decidedly welcome. For "the old order changeth, yielding place to new," and where 1927 sat amidst the reeking traditions of its predecessors, 1928 will enjoy the comforts of a modern hotel...