Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the oil shortage threatening to close school doors at Boston College and several local high schools, temporary relief was obtained yesterday when the Navy released some of their reserve supply of the precious fuel for civilian consumption. Harvard seemed reasonably free from danger of a freeze. Exhaust steam from the Cambridge Electric Company, which warms Crimson buildings, is coal-generated, and so far not closed off by war conditions...
...snow, winds and subzero temperatures last week slowed the greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept in aisles, heaped baggage...
...steam. The field of thermodynamics was the springboard from which Gibbs launched his powerful thought of "universal application" in science-and beyond. His work lay not in experiment but in synthesis-the formulation of universal laws. ("The whole is simpler than the sum of all its parts.") Frequently he anticipated practical problems-so he is continually rediscovered...
With two complete counters, each including a coffee urn, refrigerator, and steam tables to keep food warm, they manage to serve 30 men per minute, cafeteria style, thus completing the whole feeding in an hour. The men eat from the Army regulation trays at 60 tables seating ten people each, in a high-well-lighted room. As the students enter the dining room, a large locker is at their disposal to hang coats and hats...
...days later WPB allocated to them enough steel and other materials to: 1) start building 286 steam or diesel road locomotives, 100 diesel switchers and 20,000 open-top cars; 2) allocated 1,100,000 tons of steel for new track and maintenance during the first quarter...