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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...
Accessories Extra. In San Francisco, Edward T. Adkins, who had equipped his car with a magazine rack, movie camera, electric torch and drill and an airplane steering gear, was stopped for driving without license plates...
PRINCETON, New Jersey, May 1--The fast, heavy backfield of Princeton's rugby team swarmed all over a Crimson fifteen today to rack up an amazing score...
...trim hulk of a man with a huge head (size 7⅞ hat) and thinning red-blond hair, he swears rarely, smokes not at all, limits his drinking to two Scotches (neat). He wears conservative ties and double-breasted suits, which he buys off the rack at St. Paul's Maurice L. Rothschild & Co. He is equally at home with bankers and ditchdiggers. He is formal in his professional relationships, always keeps his coat on whatever the temperature, looks disapprovingly on those of his associates who wear flashy sports jackets. While talking, even in private, he organizes his replies...