Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Federal agents, peering through a window of a private house from a back alley, saw steam rising from copper coils, heard the roar of a boiler fire, smelled the sour odor of cooking mash. Although they did not see the moonshiners at work, they broke into the house without warrant, seized the aromatic mash, the steaming still...
...Tacoma was glad he remembered that fact because Tacoma (pop. 110.000 ) badly needed light, badly needed power. Cushman Dam which supplies water for the city-owned plant was dangerously low. Where four inches of rain had fallen last October, this October fell less than one inch. Abandoned private steam plants were prepared for operation. Housewives had to be told to cut down on current. Only every other street light burned at night. Electrical signs were shut off. The lights on the tower of the city hall went dark for the first time in 30 years...
...recall sitting quietly a; his desk while steam shovels threatened the Yard with a new War Memorial. And perched on his window seat the Vagabond still looks out over the scene of many a Senior-Freshman picture-disturbance...
Lowell House, of which Professor Coolidge, is head, will contain 139 single suites, 73 double suites, and one triple suite, thus accomodating 288 students. Or this group, however, a small number will be graduates. All these rooms are steam heated, and with but few exceptions, are equipped with fireplaces...
...Sandy Lake, Manitoba, aged Paul Boychuk, miller, proudly inspected a giant grist-grinder which he had invented many years ago. It included a strange lumber framework, a steam engine, a mighty boulder whirling rapidly in air. As he watched, the revolving stone split into countless fragments. A 150-lb. piece struck Miller Boychuk, killed...