Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first actual work on the $1,500,000 enlargement, of Langdell Hall was started last week and operations began in earnest yesterday when two steam shovels began the excavations for the foundations...
...contractors who are carrying on the excavating for the architects, Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, estimate that their work will be completed in four or five weeks, depending upon the weather. Another steam shovel will be put into use today, bringing the total dirt removing capacity of the three machines to 1500 or 1800 square yards of earth...
...when Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed his paper and for months later talked on both sides of the question. He at first decided to write a paper justifying the action of Captain Wilkes in seizing the Confederate Commissioners from the British steam packet Trent, but shortly joined with his Cabinet in making a humiliating apology to Great Britain...
...Furthermore, Mr. Slocum has contributed, in a journal of literary merit, an acute and forceful analysis of an important educational question. This Ajax must not be left in the middle of the road to defy steam-rollers. He is too nice and too generous-hearted for road material...
...Reno, Nev., has long discussed methods by which the arrival of tourists along the frequently snow-bound Sierra highway may be facilitated. They approached a solution of their difficulties when someone suggested that the snowy road be underlaid with pipes and that the pipes then, be filled with steam, thus warming the road and melting the barrier upon its surface. Sixteen miles of the cold-beleaguered turnpike could be so coddled; boilers at four mile intervals would keep the water warm, wood from the near forests would warm the boilers. Two men could attend to feeding the fires. Prompted...