Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trails. More than 400 years ago Leonardo da Vinci, great artist, scientist, wished to fly. That seems to have been the one constant wish throughout his long & lively life-to fly. He knew of course nothing about modern motive power, although he did make some contraptions to operate by steam force. Therefore it was directly to birds that he turned discerning thoughts. He studied the mechanics of their flights, the comparative anatomy of their bodies. He built flying machines and, superb and practical engineer, he knew before he tried them that they would not work. Some secret of nature baffled...
...completion of the new heating plant, which will serve practically all the University buildings north of the College Yard, has made it possible for the Museum authorities to take out of the basement the great steam boilers, and the space thus vacated will be used for storing the scientific publications of the University until they are distributed among subscribers and the institutions with which the Museum makes exchanges. The walls of rooms have been painted, with the result that the whole interior has been freshened and brightened...
...time when highways will be filled with riders, just as now illustrators present a sky crowded with man-made birds. A striking prophecy is contained in the engraving of 1846 on "Hyde Park as it will be." Although the automobiles which fill the entire scene are propelled by steam and resemble dwarfed locomotives rather than modern cars, the whole idea of the picture seems prophetic of the present era, some eighty years later...
...Lavanburg Foundation to provide comfortable homes for the families of low-paid workers. By low pay he meant a total family income of $25 or less a week. Speedily his executors set to work abuilding an apartment house to accommodate 120 such families. Suites were to contain steam heat, electric lights, private baths, gas ranges, ice boxes-"all modern conveniences." Last week the executors dedicated the building. But no 120 families with $25-a-week incomes occupied the rooms. The executors found barely enough of them to occupy a single floor. Consequently they were obliged to fill the suites with...
...forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain challenge to the colleges, a challenge which too probably will be answered by the snorting of the steam shovel echoed in empty classrooms...