Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...
...Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...
...Angeles, Calif., the Bureau of Power & Light announced last month: "Our residential light curves begin to drop at 9 o'clock at this season of the year, and from 9 to 11 the drop is swift and steady. Before 12 o'clock practically all of Los Angeles is asleep...
...gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...
...third post open is that of manager of the 150 pound crew and is rewarded by the insignia of the light Freshman eight. In addition the spring regatta committee is chosen from among the remaining manager candidates...