Word: mallinokrodt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mallinokrodt Flooded...
...night the Chemistry laboratories has its occasional alarms, claims Kenneth E. Slocum, who guards Mallinokrodt. He tells of wavering temperatures in chemical refrigerators which caused all manner of explosions and poisongas leakages. Slocum's equipment, of course, includes gas masks. A major catastrophe happened several years ago. During a temporary discontinuance of service by the Cambridge Water Department, many students turned on the faucets at their laboratory desks and, obtaining no water, left the faucets turned on. When service was eventually restored, there was a large-scale flood, which required police forces and a crew from Widener an entire night...
...personal relaxation while they sit in their offices, their ears attuned for phone calls and sounds of misbehavior. Many of them snatch glances at their favorite magazines, when no one is looking. Dugald Livingston of the Chemistry Laboratories, however, is an individualist. Any burglar second-storying his way into Mallinokrodt on the nights when Livingstond is on duty would be greeted with the errie sound of clarinet figures echoling up and down the shadowed stairways...
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