Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made of the plan but nothing was announced. In short, the replies of the Administration have answered none of the questions asked. There is no alternative but to believe that the most earnest requests of Faculty, Alumni, and undergraduates are regarded by those in authority over the University plant as of little interest and no consequence. It is difficult to see how these men, who are told by the appeals for the Alumni Fund that they are the real strength of Yale and that her future must depend on their loyal and confident support, can feel that there...
...building material could be produced by mixing pulverized lime and clay in correct proportions and driving out the carbonic acid gas with heat. Aspdin was not a chemist or scientist; and his momentous discovery was made by accidental experimentation. Up until 1872, there was not a Portland cement plant in this country. Today the U. S. industry represents a capital investment of over $300,000,000, employs from 25,000 to 40,000 men, produces annually 25,000,000 tons of cement...
...strange and the too familiar seem to have fitted it peculiarly never to be used. A few pedagogical monstrosities might amuse themselves with translating the masterpieces of other literatures into its artificially simple rhetoric, but that so practically minded a person as a minister of education would try to plant it in schools already overburdened by the attempt to combine the useful and the beautiful, is hardly conceivable...
...lights that pricked out along the gondolas. At dawn it passed Atlanta, turned west, crossed the Mississippi at Greenville. Cotton lands and wheat lands, sage lands and deltas. As the sun was sinking again, it reached Fort Worth, where it was moored within half a mile of the only plant in the world which produces the helium that fills its belly. So was ended the first lap of the journey. The time was 34 hours. The distance was approximately 1,400 miles...
Keeping the squash courts open during the evening would practically double their capacity, without necessitating any change in the existing plant. Some slight extra expense would be incurred. Another attendant might be found necessary; yet this expense is nothing in proportion to the benefits derived. It might even be defrayed by a charge on the use of the courts after seven o'clock, a charge which would be practically nominal...