Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Floating Power Pile. A teacup of water has enough nuclear power, potentially to drive a large steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. But physicists who have studied the problem believe that an atomic engine will be no teacup affair; the only method they have found to date for releasing nuclear energy is the fission of considerable quantities of a heavy element like uranium...
Then Mary got married, and set up school in 1904 in Daytona Beach, Fla. "on $1.50 and faith." Her first pupils were five little girls and her son. They used charcoal for pencils, mashed elderberries to make ink. The curriculum included manual training; her pupils repaired junk-pile furniture so they would have something...
Shackles to Studies. Fisk began in 1866, in abandoned Union hospital barracks, and its first books were bought by selling a pile of old iron handcuffs found in the barracks. Most of the first students were freed slaves, who had to start from scratch, work up from the three Rs to college subjects (some took ten years). Eleven of the students barnstormed the U.S. and Europe as the "Fisk Jubilee Singers," in three years raised $100,000 for the University by singing spirituals...
...highest since 1920. Even with the bumper crops expected this year, most grain traders think that wheat will stay up there because of the world demand. Moreover, farmers were having a tough time getting their grain to market. The shortage of railroad cars had forced many of them to pile it up in the open fields alongside the tracks (see cut). At week's end, drenching rains had spoiled half the grain stored in some fields...
Harry Lacey, a Boston interior the Rubens' painting, "Descent from the Rubens' painting, "Descent from the Cross," to the Fogg Art Museum, it was reported early today. Lacey allegedly had no knowledge of the value of the print, and recovered it from a pile of debris in the basement of the Boston Art Club...