Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steam, compressed air, electricity...
...sleeping-bus service, a rival of its railways, began operation. Twelve sleepers rumbled out of Newcastle in the premiere sleeping-bus, which made the 254-mile run to London before breakfast time. On the way the bus stopped at Darlington Station from which, in 1825, chuffed forth the first steam train. Each sleeper was served "early morning tea" in his sleeping-berth...
...that it rests with the farmer to decide whether it is more profitable to sell his waste products in bulk to industrial concerns or to exploit them himself. He discussed the manufacture of alcohol from grain, potato, fruit residues; utilization of unfit lemons for making citric acid, working up steam waste into carbon, illuminating gas, acetic acid, furfural;* new methods of using lactose, casein, starch, sucrose, dextrose, etc. Old Foes. Molds have always been considered food destroyers, ruining bread, milk, fruit, everything on which their furry hairy mycelia develop. Dr. H. T. Herrick of the U. S. Department of Agriculture...
Bonaparte, imperially decreed that seven good roads with easy gradients should be built over the Pyrenees, but not one was ever more than well begun. The grades on the new Samport railway are too steep for trains ever to be served by steam locomotives but the giant electrics which have been installed are operated by free power shrewdly filched by turbines from tumbling Pyrenean waterfalls and foaming streams...
...coarse, ill-shapen, irritating to the skin, offensive to the nose. Guests would have shunned the White House bathrooms. Servants would have departed in disgust and fury rather than wash dishes with thrifty, housewifely soap. Wisely, Mrs. Coolidge chose to purchase soap made of the finest oils, boiled in steam-heated, 1,000,000-lb. urns, purified of complexion-destroying acids, perfumed with flowered scents, shaped to beguile both hand...