Word: heatings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team passed by. The hungry trainload confiscated its provender. Rescuers brought food and medicine by horse and hand sleighs. Finally the blizzards subsided. Three engines managed to break through the drifts and help the first three lug the typhoid victims to hospitals. Only one patient died...
Although a full sized house has not yet been constructed, the inventor claims that it is flood-proof, earth-quake-proof, wind-proof, tornado-proof, heat-proof, cold-proof, and economical and that an airplane could run into it without damaging it. In addition, the partitions and struts are made of hollow duralumin which is pumped full of air to increase the tensile strength of the structure and to enable the children of the house to fall down without being hurt by the springy flooring...
...yard low hurdles--First two men in each heat qualified. First heat--won by R. H. O'Connell '30; second, Minehan (D), Time-26 sec. Second heat--won by G. A. Tupper '29; second, Marsters (D). Time--25 4-5 sec. Final--won by Tupper second, O'Connell; third, Marsters Time...
...yard high hurdles--First two men in each heat qualified. First heat--won by Gallagher (D); second Putnam (D). Time--18 4-5 sec. Second heat--won by F. J. Mardulier '30; second, Alcorn (D). Time--16 3-5 sec. Final--won by Putnam; second, Alcorn; third, Mardulier. Time...
...yard dash--First three men in each heat qualified. First heat--won by T. F. Mason '30; second, Goldsmith (D); third, Swope (D). Time--23 4-5 sec. Second heat--won by Pratt (D); second, Stevens; (D); third, Thorn (D). Time--23 2-5 sec. Final--won by Mason; second Stevens third, Goldsmith. Time...