Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, it almost turned out that the race had no winner. When it was over old oarsmen agreed that it was the closest thing to a dead heat they had ever seen. Decision went to Penn, which had built up a half-length lead at the mile mark, struggled to stand off the Navy challenge from there on to cross the finish line a few inches in front and win by an official 1/10 of a second...
...Dead. Knowing only a little of Abyssinia, its blazing heat and freezing nights, its mosquito-infested swamps, fierce tribesmen, arid plains and almost impregnable mountains, what benefits then does Italy expect to get from its subjugation? Italian Finance Minister Count Paolo Thaon di Revel announced last week that the Italian expedition to Abyssinia had already cost the Fascist Government $50,000,000, and Italian troops have not yet crossed the frontier. Fascist bigwigs divide the Abyssinian advantages of the campaign into two groups, sentimental and practical...
...manufacturing items and procedures which the engineers discussed, the following attracted most attention: Yielding metal disks to replace safety valves in tanks which contain corrosive gases; pure, unyielding platinum, gold and silver to line tubes and machinery; porous bricks which act as heat insulators; shipping highly reactive compounds of sodium in tank cars so full that no air or water can get in to deteriorate them; production on a vast scale at Wilson Dam of phosphatic fertilizers cheap enough to persuade Tennessee Valley farmers to refresh their exhausted, eroding soil...
...acetone from a mixture of acetone and air by means of an absorption tower, using water as the absorbent. Students were obliged to deduce a plant of the most economical type and to calculate its annual operating cost. They also had to design certain auxiliaries, such as a heat exchanger, a condenser, and a still boiler, and to figure the most economical way of running the whole system...
Rowing in the American Henley at Philadelphia, the Varsity 150's compete against Princeton, Yale, Penn, Navy, Cornell, and Columbia. A morning and an afternoon heat will probably be run in view of the number of entrants. The Harvard boatings are: stroke, Whitney; 7, Dall; 6, Carpenter; 5, Adams; 4, Bill; 3, Piper; 2, Hall; bow, Perry; cox, Barber...