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A heavy ruby-glass ashtray flew off a desk and sprayed shards over the floor. Outside, both panes of a mock-up storefront were smashed, a glass window in a trailer caved in, and 16 out of 90 panes in a small greenhouse were shattered. The plane had come in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Boom & Bust | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

Lamont Library, for instance, is so tightly sealed it might serve as a space station, complete with air locks at the entrances. A controlled atmosphere may assist study, but the attempt at complete regulation has produced a number of unplanned side effects in Lamont. The characteristic odor has become part...

Author: By David R. Underhill, | Title: Clearing the Air | 4/27/1963 | See Source »

The huge orange fans crowning Holyoke Center have now been covered with a box which hangs out over the east wall. Yet anyone who doubts that the fans are still whirring away, should take the elevator to the tenth floor some time. Air whistles and screeches out of wall vents...

Author: By David R. Underhill, | Title: Clearing the Air | 4/27/1963 | See Source »

Even without its fine studies of bygone craftsmanship, Sloane's book would be of value for its intimate picture of the life of American country people at the turn of the 19th century. Young boys, like the one whose diary he follows, would get up on winter mornings, run...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popular Science, 1805 | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heap o' writin' | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

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