Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot corridor from the cells the wall is lined with steal radiators, which can provide several times the amount of radiation necessary to warm such...
...crown sheet," which fits over the locomotive boiler's end separating the water chamber from the fire box, had given way. The water drenched the fires and steamed, scalding, into the cab. The ultimate dissipation of the locomotive's steam pressure had set the air brakes, averting calamity. In railway air brake systems, air compressed by a head of steam keeps the brakes off the wheels. When the steam head is released, the air valve opens, letting the air escape and clamping on the brakes...
...file with SEC or awaiting issuance are four sizable issues proposed for sale in September: Youngstown Sheet & Tube, $30,000,000; Phillips Petroleum, $25,000,000; Atlantic Refining Co., $25,000,000; Gulf States Utilities $10,000,000. Only about half of these four borrowings are for working capital-hence industrial companies, if not utilities, are floating loans for new money. Another plain fact is that generally only top-notch companies thus far have tried to raise money and they have offered mostly senior issues. Many economists hold that there can be no noteworthy recovery in the capital market until...
...word without a meaning is a dead word, a corrupt word. . . . Let us write that word in large black letters on a sheet of foolscap; then solemnly apply a match to the paper. . . . Now let us bray the ashes in a mortar with a goose-feather pen, and declare in unison singing together that anyone who uses that word in future is a ring-the-bell-and-run-away man, a mischief maker, a groper among old bones, the proof of whose defilement is written in a smudge of dirty water upon his face." The word Virginia Woolf thus exorcises...
...high-spots of the summer session was the "opinion sheet" passed out to students to enable official to out to students to enable officials to give their like and dislikes of their life. Recommendations varied from a demand for more cream for after-dinner coffee to a plea that the course credit system be abandoned altogether and that a more informal adult cultural institute be developed...