Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sand...
...sand, an entirely different substance, supports weight quite well when undisturbed, but when piles are driven into it the whole mass suddenly liquefies and the piles sink. Quicksand is thus merely the upward flow of water through sand. Dry sand acts even more strangely; when all the air is pumped out, it becomes as hard as rock. This fact explains why foundations set on deep piles are usually safe...
...regulates the other University time-pieces without deviating more than five seconds annually from the exact time. This enigma, one of the seven in the United States, stands inside a vault in the basement of the Geographical Institute, insulated from any vibration affecting the building by its foundation of sand, and kept at a constant temperature of 25 degrees. The master-clock itself, a three foot copper cylinder surmounted by a glass bell, encloses a tripod which supports a long steel pendulum; the air within the cylinder has been exhausted to 1-40th of an atmosphere. A slave clock...
...overheated oil feed pipe. The regular engineer was painfully burned about the hand. Regally commanding alarmed passengers, who set up a cry of bombs, Bulgaria's Boris leaped to the throttle and drove the train carefully to the nearest bridge, where he put out the fire with wet sand. He dressed the engineer's hand himself, then, sopping wet, proudly ran the train the rest of the way to Varna...
...Yale Courant," in defending Yale against the attacks of the "Nassau Misc" which finds fault with the excessive sandiness of the Yale football game, delivers itself of the following: "Sand is no doubt disagreeable to certain individuals, but it is entirely preferable to the concoction of mud, cowardice, and sour grapes which the organs of Princeton, Harvard and their New York satellites make a point of aiming at Yale after every Thanksgiving game...