Word: heating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome house. Mr. Craig could not smoke in certain rooms. Mrs. Craig was forever following the maids around and remaking beds because of fancied wrinkles. Her husband was simply a necessary adjunct. He kept the house in operation with money, as the furnace kept it supplied with heat. He did not realize his helplessness until one day he was suspected of murder. His wife lied to detectives and upbraided him cruelly. All she was worrying about was notoriety. Mr. Craig abruptly recognized her unhappy egotism, smashed her pet mantel ornament in the fireplace, and walked firmly out of her life...
Each event will be divided into heats, the winner of each heat to row in the finals tomorrow afternoon. Medals will be awarded to the winners of each class of boat, all members of the University being allowed to compete. About 30 have signed up for entries so far, and men may still apply by signing in the blue-book at the manager's desk in Weld Boathouse...
...went Lloyd. After him sprang his rival, a little Chevrolet* automobile. Lloyd, "champion sprinter of the University of Southern California," was three strides ahead before the spitting, snorting car had got into second. At the finish, man and car were neck and hub, timed at 10.3 in a dead-heat finish...
...monstrous cauldrons and crushers and carborundum refractories that industrial chemists use in their vast necromancies. A glum coterie stood before ranged vials of "industrial alcohols." Twin spirals of galvanized iron whirled at different speeds in glassed boxes, proving to the eye how much less hot air is lost from heat pipes when they are properly swaddled. Before the Anaconda Copper Co.'s glittering display, the crowds milled thickly: an ingot of solid gold! A bottle of platinum filings! Of palladium! In a far corner, a genial little man plunged a gas blow torch into a jug of water...
...into the "palace" sped men with hammers, saws, paints, brushes, tweezers, nippers, screwdrivers, wire and tapes, to prepare new wonders for the public eye-the 18th annual Electrical and Industrial Exposition. Inklings of what was in store were issued: a device enabling housewives to cook and bake with the heat from ordinary electric light bulbs; 40 different electric refrigerators; 20 new electric household tools; an endless variety of washing, ironing, cleaning machines; an all-electric barber shop including an electrically-driven safety razor; a "bloodless" or "radio" knife for surgeons; photograph-transmitting radios-in all, devices numbering over...