Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...basement has been remodeled, much of the old piping and machinery has been replaced by newer material, and better accommodations have been arranged for the help. The old floor of the dining hall was taken up this summer and replaced by fire-proof concrete construction, covered with a new hard wood flooring...
...petition of the Harvard Dining Association, the Corporation agrees to advance the money necessary for building in the dining hall a fire-proof floor with fire-proof stairs and partitions at the east end; also for cold-storage and electric-lighting plants, and for ventilation of the kitchen, and to charge interest upon these advances from the end of the current financial year upon the standing debt of the association, at the rate of four and a half per cent a year...
...proposed changes, the most important and expensive will be that of replacing the present floor of the hall by one that will be fire-proof. The present wooden floor and beams will be replaced by iron beams, surmounted by brick arches with a cement covering. On this it was originally intended to put a mosaic or tiled floor, but as this would have prevented holding Senior dances, a hard oak floor will be substituted, and the expense of this will be shared in all probability by the Association and the funds of future Class Day Committees until...
...year 52 B. C. an embassy was sent from Ceylon to Rome. The embassy was intercepted in Lydia and it is therefore conjectured that the fables were spread in Asia Minor and from there into India. The embassy later proceeded to Rome and spread the fables there also. Proof of this exists in the parallelism between the various authors of fables who wrote at this time. A connection between the 7 Talmudic and Buddhist fables may be traced to this same embassy...
...four plates may be developed simultaneously without requiring any constant attention. Previously this same work required the attention of several men, during a long period of time. After the plates are developed they are labelled, dated, catalogued, and after a second inspection, they are finally stored in the fire-proof photographic library. During the last year 12,000 pictures were taken in this way, and the library now contains nearly 100,000 phot graphs, many of which contain impressions of nearly 500,000 different stars. These pictures furnish a complete map of the sky for the past ten years...