Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That a regulation Finnish bath house will be built in the Soldiers Field Locker Building has become almost a certainty due to recent decisions made by the H. A. A. authorities. It is planned, if the construction is undertaken, to incorporate the steam appliance in the new wing of the Locker Building which is now being started...
This is the first time that any group of collegiate track men in America have been given this steam bath, but the University runners, unused to it as they were, went through the procedure like veterans. They are eager to return again, but their visit will be postponed until after the triangular Harvard-Dartmouth-Cornell meet on Saturday. It is hoped that the success of this experiment will move the authorities to install the proposed Finnish bath at Soldiers Field...
...submarine, the airplane, the dynamite- gun. Growth, he believed, was a matter of interlacing of organization?a theory which he practiced in his own consolidating activities. A captain of industry, still he stuck to the sea, which had been gracious to him; he built, captained, the Grade, the "swiftest steam yacht that ever split the salt." He has been the confidant of Tilden, the associate of Elaine, the purse-bearer of the Rothschilds, the sponsor of a South American Republic (Chile...
...know there is an old document down in the archives of a Kentucky county relating an instance of narrow-mindedness in those days. A group of people asked the permission of the authorities to use a school building for a meeting to discuss that new invention the steam locomotive. Permission was refused because the school board said, If the Lord had meant us to travel more than 15 miles an hour he would have said so in the Bible...
Away in the distance tooted the whistle of a train. Soon it appeared in sight, belching forth steam and smoke. A little later, General Pershing stepped from his compartment and received the ovations of the assembled multitude...