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Fire chewed through the caves and partitions of the Harvard Union yesterday, sending streams of sprinkler and hose water down through the ceilings, causing from 12 to 15 thousand dollars worth of damage, and forcing some 1100 freshmen to eat their meals elsewhere at least until lunch today...
...stream of gas varies with the stream's diameter. The big stream that shoots from the tailpipe of a jet engine stirs up a lot of low-frequency sound that carries for miles as a thunderous roar. Small gas streams, e.g., air escaping from a compressor hose, give high-frequency sound. Much of it is too high-pitched to be heard at all, and much of the rest is absorbed by the air before it has traveled...
PLASTIC PRICES will come down as the result of an 18% price slash on Union Carbide & Carbon Corp.'s vinyl resins (used for raincoats, upholstery, garden hose, etc.). With Italian vinyls selling in the U.S. for 32? a lb., Union Carbide was forced to cut its price from...
Married seniors and Lampoon Fools also took part in the race pushing baby carriages. The Fools pram inexplicably caught fire, but they had pumps and hose lines ready to put out the fire and to spray the spectators. Later they were tossed into the lake...
...standard TV tube, the picture is formed by a slim beam of electrons scanning back and forth across the phosphor on its front face, like a garden hose washing a wall. The Willys tube works on the same general principle, but it has no large empty space. It is made of two glass plates an inch or so apart, with a vacuum between. The electron beam enters from an upper corner. The electrons move horizontally between the glass sheets and stream past metal "deflection plates...