Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a project could not be realized before next year and more immediate ice is desirable. The Boston Arena, now used by the Varsity, is booked up solid for the winter, and other nearby rinks are owned by private clubs with memberships so swollen in these inflationary times that all University requests have been spurned...
...Even though some charitable alumnus were kindly disposed toward the financing of such a project, however, Bingham asserts that the problem would be far from solved. The Hobey Baker Memorial Rink at Princeton costs $8-9000 annually in maintenance over and above the revenue taken in from renting the ice to the public and to nearby schools such as Lawrenceville. Furthermore, the H.A.A. would have to follow a policy on any rink of its own similar to its policy with regard to the Stadium, which is never rented to the public because of the adverse criticism that might arise from...
...North Polar regions," says Andrews, "are problems of a different nature. . . . We have a great deal to learn about weather in the Arctic regions, the movement of ice, what lies at the bottom of the Arctic seas. . . . Today that region means rapid transport, strategic air bases, weather stations. . . . The Arctic will soon become a Broadway for intercontinental transport...
...Seattle last week, the Federal Council met for the 14th time. Olympic Hotel bellhops thought it was a funny kind of convention-no midnight calls for ice & soda, no singing in the corridors, no big tips. But to ecumenical-minded Protestants it was a tremendous success...
...machine industry, which has rapidly expanded to a jackpot gross of $500,000,000 a year. Automatic vendors now sell thousands of items, golf balls, perfume whiffs, laundry, toilet seat covers, insurance policies and hot dogs with mustard. In the offing are machines to sell 1) milk, butter, and ice cream in apartments, and 2) gasoline in automatic stations...