Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first nine minutes, the Crimson looked like a fine college hockey team. The lines passed well, skated well, and took advantage of the numerous slip-tips by the Tech defense to rack up four goals, and almost hit for half a dozen more...
Dike Hyde played a great game, recovering a fumble, catching a touchdown pass and guarding well his right end slot. Dravaric kicked with aplomb and accuracy to rack up six points...
...execute his canny attack he has two fullbacks whose speed and finesse have enabled them to rack up 113 yards in three games for a total of 108 points as against 8 by their opponents...
Placing such a tower on Lamont's roof was viewed in the same light as using John Harvard's statue for a bicycle rack. Fortunately, however, architects noted in Widener's cavernous cellar and broad roof an admirable location for bulky air-conditioning machinery. They also pointed out that the great lengths of pipe needed for the Widener location of equipment is still far cheaper than adding 1000 square feet of space to Lamont's basement...
Heat Wave. During the war, employees of the Raytheon Co., which made magnetron (microwave) tubes for radar, found that they could give themselves diathermy ("deep heat") treatments by standing near tubes on the test rack. Some of them got so enthusiastic that they thought the waves could "cure anything...