Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fewer & fewer people stood in lines before Red Cross relief camp kitchens in Long Beach, Calif, last week. More & more waited in cheerful queues at the Municipal Building to get building permits. No epidemic had erupted. Two minor shocks did not retard inspection of the city's gas mains, some of which were sprung by the earthquake two weeks before. Compton's main street and six blocks in Long Beach were still roped off, but elsewhere in those towns and throughout the stricken area refugees were returning to their homes as fast as the gas was turned...
...other hand were completely intoxicated with the idea that they were actually addressing their constituents and friends. Speeches dragged on hour after hour. Socialists objected because they said, "It is not right that the public should hear all the rude things said in this house." But the main reason of Chile's Congress for ending its broadcasting was that the effect thereof had been the precise opposite of that intended-a parliamentary stymie...
...Besides the pieces which appeared to explode into the tail, others exploded from the main mass and dropped to the ground. So it was impossible to tell whether the meteor gradually disintegrated or struck the ground...
...noticed that an extremely bright, fiery thread extended backward from the main mass before it spread out into the gaseous brilliantly shaded tail, which may have been between 50 and 100 miles long." One million meteors enter the earth's atmosphere each hour, become incandescent from friction. But rarely are astronomers able to photograph the hot spots and analyze the spectra. Last week Harvard's Dr. Peter Mackenzie Millman proudly reported that he had spectral pictures of nine meteors. Six, possibly seven were mostly stone. All contained some iron (heated to vapors of between...
...result of the investigation new being carried on under the supervision of A. L. Endicott '94, comptroller of the University. The most common difficulties are spliced wires, cords fastened to the woodwork, and extensions longer than the legal length. Insufficiency of baseplugs, especially in the elder rooms, is the main cause of the trouble...