Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard men are superstitious. Yesterday a crew of carpenters engaged in repairing the roof of Wigglesworth Hall left a ladder leaning against the wall of the building in such a way that it slanted completely across the main path to the Union...
...Paul's Catholic Club will hold its 39th annual ball and supper-dance in the main ballroom of the Hotel Statler on Monday, April 17. J. R. Canavan '34, chairman of the ball committee, has announced that the proceeds will be donated to the Saint Vincent de Paul of Cambridge...
Tammany Hall, whose James John ("Jimmy") Walker was forced out of New York City Hall by Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, has been working with might & main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next November's municipal election. Upon his success depends Tammany's grip on the city government. Last week Tammany received an unexpected boost when Judge Seabury told the Yale Daily News...
...other main subdivision of organic chemistry, the aromatics, the carbon atoms form a ring. Benzene is the typical aromatic, dyes and drugs important commercial ring products, Germans the greatest experts...
...Curme's main work has been with aliphatic chemicals, such as fatty acids, hydrocarbons, alcohols, esters, ethers. In those compounds the carbon atoms are arranged like links in an open chain.* Ethane, with two linked carbon atoms, is a simple aliphatic; ethyl alcohol a simple aliphatic derivative. Three years ago Dr. Curme began to manufacture ethyl alcohol synthetically on a large scale. Other profitable work has been with acetylene (for welding, lighting), ethylene glycol (for anti-freeze mixtures), ethylene oxide (insecticide, fumigant). Should he have to, Dr. Curme could probably make a living from the hydrocarbons blowing away...