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...last snow flies in New England. Hulking pungs slide off quietly into the slashing behind the pump horse. The new town truck drones along the highway casting up furrows of white foam. With a sharp jar as the sled strikes ground, a cheerful gnome starts off belly flopper down the hill to school. A tall pine stands out in the pasture with the blackness of a widow in her weeds. There is the delicate, syncopated tinkle as a Morgan in a red cutter swerves through town. The mountains stare down upon the valleys grown old, and spare, and bleak over...
...Vagabond spent yesterday morning in a vain effort to solve the problem of his rooming accommodations for this year. The best location, judged from a physical standpoint, is the pump shack by Appleton Canyon in the Yard. But there the miniature landscape even now is cluttered by a few early Freshmen. One of them asked Mr. Apted, who was loitering around, if he would care to join him in a round of peewee golf; freshmen must band together, you know, we're all Harvard...
...York City. The gas company wanted a device to resuscitate asphyxiated persons. The Drinker machine does that (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930). It is a metal box weighing 700 Ib. A person unable to breathe voluntarily is sealed in the chamber, all except his head. An electric pump creates a mild, interrupted vacuum in the sealed box. The vacuum is sufficient to pull up the victim's chest. That action pulls air into his lungs through his mouth which remains exposed to the free air. When the chamber vacuum is released, his chest falls, air is squeezed...
...London reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...
Worthington Pump...