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Steam is brought to the various buildings around the college in under ground tunnels which stretch for a distance of about three miles. It comes from the Cambridge Electric Light Company which is located on Memorial drive, south of Dunster House. The main tunnels of the distribution system are seven feet high and eight feet wide branch tunnels being four or five feet wide. The engineers in charge of the heating can walk all over the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Construction Project Carried on by University Now Complete--Many New Mechanical Devices Installed | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

...climax of last night's unusually passive Liberal Club meeting, resulting in the election of a conservative as President, brings to an harmonious conclusion the strife between radicals and conservatives which has threatened to disrupt the activities of the organization. Straddling main issues and pledging himself to "any liberal policies the Club sees fit," the new President has set forth a program which promises to favor compromise with the harmony that results from such action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIBERALS CARRY ON | 5/15/1934 | See Source »

...sour milk and special "limed milk." There are eggs, fish, vegetables & fillers. For dessert Main Line dogs may have a Large Bone (5? ). Other prices vary with the market. The standard platter weighs 1 lb., ordinarily sells for 12? or 13? raw and 15? cooked. One of them usually lasts a Sealyham or spaniel two days but a Great Dane or setter wolfs several per day. Puppies and invalids, which need more food oftener, are served daily by the "Puppy Special." The new plant at Oakmont has been made ultra-sanitary, equipped with cutting, cooking, packing, snipping and reception rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Canine Caterer | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...watchful eye, but few of the delegates foresaw how close and intimate that partnership was to be. Yet if U. S. businessmen had occasionally found the partnership irksome so had President Roosevelt. Last week he wrote the Chamber a letter in polite but plain English. Excerpts: "In the main, American businessmen have cooperated patriotically. "The Federal Government will continue its unceasing efforts to stimulate employment. . . . Private business can and must help to take up the slack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Grand Audit | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...after a four months' trial on charges of racketeering in the laundry, dyeing & cleaning, carbonated beverage, and linen supply industries (TIME, Aug. 7). Said Dr. Squires: "They tried to blacken my reputation but they couldn't do it." Said the prosecuting attorney: "The trial has served its main purpose. Since it started, there has been no bombing, acid throwing, window smashing or slugging." Said the jurymen, locked up since Jan. 19: "Hurray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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