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...electric spark administered, the dust exploded. Perhaps it was a new clue to the solution of the fuel problem. Chemist W. A. Noel of the Department had hit upon it when the carriage of his model grain elevator was blown to the top of its shaft like a motor piston and wrecked, by the spontaneous combustion of dust accumulated in the shaft. His major problem now is elimination of the unburned residue after each explosion. He believes waste dusts from mills and factories may some day drive multicylindered motor cars...
...hipped runagade, no man could hold him; he writhed through seas of grasping moleskin-flints with a twiddle of his buttocks and a flirt of his shinbone. His knee-bolt pumped like an engine piston; his straight arm fell like a Big-Wood tree. Last week, after a summer on ice, he twice manifested himself before his heirophants. First he prepared to take the field against Nebraska, his ancient enemy; secondly he addressed a message to his personal public in the October issue of the American Boy. The message?a three page article on football?was signed with his name...
...outset, it seemed as if the plan would work as smoothly as a piston in a well-oiled cylinder. But M. Citroën had not counted upon native bullets or, if he had, he had counted upon the sky-blue soldiers of France to stop them. Turbulent Moors disliked the headless, legless camels that were to scoot across the desert at 45 miles an hour, declared an unholy war upon them. French officers warned M. Citroën that they could not guarantee security to tourists in the desert-finis. Sadly, painfully, reluctantly, M. Citroën announced...
...Brown '25 will coach the orchestra during the coming season, it was announced last night. Brown has played in the orchestra for three years as first cellist, under W. R. Piston Jr. '24, last year's conductor. At present Piston is continuing his musical studies abroad. His training has been under such men as George Chadwick, Wallace Goodrich, Karl Muck, Pierre Monteaux, and Emil Mollenbauser...
...Harvard University Orchestra, the Pierian Sodality of 1808, has just announced the opening of its 118th concert season with a new conductor, G. A. Brown '25, of Melrose Highlands. The former conductor, W. H. Piston Jr. '24 of Boston, who led the orchestra for the last three years, is now in Europe continuing his study of music...