Word: solids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he is, despite his present conservatism, not quite the type which usually receives official recognition. Once a satirist and a rebel, he has become a defender of a highly intellectual kind of authoritarianism in politics and religion as well as in literature, but he has achieved a solid fame without ever saying or writing anything which seems likely to be popular. He is the most conspicuous survivor among the group of young men who set out some ten or fifteen years ago to remake the literary tradition, and he has gradually become the most generally accepted leader of what...
...when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche of masonry, bursting through the vaulted ceiling of the great Salone Sistino above, smashed into the gaily painted reference room on the ground floor. The walls, six feet of solid brickwork, stood firm...
Denver's zoo is not far from Capitol Hill, where solid Denver citizens have their homes. Such citizens Zoo Superintendent Clyde Hill would not wish to offend. But last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill...
...converted into heat energy. Well known is the Ajax Northrup high frequency furnace which increases the heat energy by creating a current in the material to be melted. Using this principle, Engineer Chesnut made an experimental furnace of 1 cu. ft. capacity. The crucible was lathed out of a solid block of graphite, a form of carbon which conducts electricity well. To set up the resistance he packed the crucible in lampblack-an obstinate conductor of electricity. The current was carried through a copper coil. The outside of the furnace was heat-insulated, and a temperature gradient was established through...
...banking structure met its greatest test of this Depression. Boston-Continental National Bank, with $7,000,000 in deposits, closed. To another bank went special aid. A run began on world-famed Five Cents Savings Bank, an institution with $102,000,000 in deposits and a reputation for great, solid conservatism. In Bridgeport, Conn., four banks became two banks. In New Haven support was thrown to Broadway National Bank. Whereas in the first nine months of 1931 only two banks failed in all New England, last week's damage brought the total to 22, Massachusetts accounting for most...