Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inquiry"--is being made by Andrews S. Seiler who is most decidedly a food expert. He is also a member of the Overseers Dining Halls Visiting Committee which qualifies him as a friend of the University, and this is fine because he won't be selling any steam tables along with his survey...
Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh left the baby Prince Charles at home and went off to judge floats in a student carnival. As winner they picked one depicting Britain's first steam railway train. The float's name: "Our Charlie...
...underground temperature went up to 900° F. Later it might go as high as 3,000° F. No immediate attempt was made to produce a useful, combustible gas: the first thing was to see how steadily the coal could be made to burn. Later, hot air, steam or oxygen could be fed into Borehole No. 1 to make a variety of gases with different chemical and thermal properties...
...room." Homosexuals and other biological misfits, such as hens that cannot lay eggs, are treated to euthanasia. (The same goes for those who violate "custom" and are repudiated by their class.) Otherwise, all violence, even impoliteness, is tabu-though occasionally New Cretan males are allowed to let off steam by pummeling each other with sticks or donning colored shorts and playing football to the music of a song called 0 Land of Our Mother, the Footballers' Queen. New Crete has a large class of bureaucrats known as "recorders." Their chief function is to destroy as many records as possible...
...Inspired by Streit's plea for a supra-national government, Wofford leaped out of the tub and proceeded to form an organization known as the Student Federalists. But it wasn't until after the San Francisco Conference in 1945 that the campaign for One World began to give off steam...