Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roar of steam and clank of steel have long made many conscious of the excavation going on for the new University Gymnasium on the plot of ground bounded by Dunster, South, Holyoke, and Winthrop Streets. The digging attracts scores who are awed by the work itself. Few however, realize the historical significance of this ground, which hour by hour, week by week, is being scooped up in the huge jaws of the steam shovels, and carried away by a never ending stream of trucks. For some time the workers of the Hegeman, Harris Co., of New York, the contractors have...
...Hurricanes (typhoons sea cyclones) reach 150 m. p. h., tornadoes (land cyclones) 300 m. p. h. Conservative calculations estimate the force of a hurricane at more than 100 billion horsepower. The 1926 Miami hurricane is calculated to have had enough power to run every dynamo, motor and steam engine in the world for 20 years...
...remaining rooms of the Club escaped with little damage as heavy fire walls, and double floors stood in the way of the flames. Slight damage was due to the clouds of smoke and steam that poured out of the upper windows, and discolored the walls. Two members temporarily trapped on the second floor, gesticulated appealingly to the crowd below with cries of "Help!" but it was correctly surmised by the spectators that the victims were beyond all possible assistance. Fortunately no casualties occurred. That the conflagration was conceived in some form of sin or sorrow, was the report of several...
...June 17 the battleships "Wyoming" and "New York" will leave Charlestown and steam directly to Boston. On Saturday, June 22, a date arranged so as to enable the Harvard contingent to see the boat races on Friday, the four units, from Harvard. Yale, Georgia Tech, and Northwestern, will embark...
...Vagabond had it on his calendar to say something today about the fact that spring is only ten days off now, but the poor arithmetic of a janitor who thought it had already come and took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much...