Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first the origin of the explosions was believed to have been the X-ray room where twelve bodies were found. Later it was placed in the film storage room in the basement. On the morning of the disaster one Buffery Bogg, steamfitter, had been called to repair a leaking steam pipe. He found the leak in the film room and removed a section of the covering, but the pipe was too hot to work on. So he went out and asked to have the steam turned off. When he returned the room was filled with steam. Something on the ceiling...
Last week the French Ministry of Fine Arts ordered all construction stopped on the Boulevard St. Michel extension of the Paris Metro. Engineers and workmen were given a fortnight holiday. Excavating will continue during the fortnight, but instead of steam shovels and pneumatic drills, trained archeologists will be at work scraping the earth methodically away with garden trowels, ice picks, soup spoons. Fortnight ago the rattling drills of the subway contractors penetrated the long lost torture chambers of the Petit Châtelet. Last week the archeologists, scraping away with their soup spoons, declared that...
...cheapness. Mr. Westinghouse had an alternative idea-Compressed Air, upon which he had been experimenting (e.g. his air-brake). The original plans of Cataract Construction Co. actually called for a plant at the Falls whence Mr. Westinghouse felt confident he could transmit compressed air to take the place of steam behind industrial pistons in Buffalo, 20 mi. away...
When the Associated Harvard Clubs meet today in Cincinnati further information concerning the House Plan may be forthcoming. Only details of the House Plan can provide Harvard men with the material that is needed for serious thought to equal the passing interest awaiting the coming steam shovels...
...provided by the problem of how Gilbert is to get both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the mine office and Ernest Torrence is led off to jail. Best shot: Torrence lulling the suspicions of the mine employes when a steam-alarm goes off as he is robbing the safe...