Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabins, both professional musicians, were careful not to push Michael; they even tried to hold him back a bit. But as father Rabin puts it, his talent was "too big." At three, Michael proved his absolute pitch by casually identifying the exact tones of steam whistles and automobile horns. At seven, he started piano lessons ("very good too"). Then, at the house of a friend, he found a half-size violin. He asked for it and got it. By his eighth birthday, he was practicing four hours...
...interest partly of economy but chiefly of the greater hapiness of the College, it is further proposed that members of the House Committees occupy the rooms and perform the duties of Resident Tutors, in turn freeing them for service at the steam-tables and, if that prove inefficient, as porters. We shall be glad to elaborate the details of this plan, contenting ourselves here with a sketch of large principles. John H. Finley, Master of Eliot House Howard E. Hugo, Senior Tutor
...news was good, but not good enough. None of the new White Pine or Anaconda production will start until 1954. Before mining begins, Anaconda must build a plant to process its low-grade ore; White Pine must build a steam power plant, railroad connections, mill and smelter facilities, and an entire new town to house...
Herbert's object is to show his audience (estimated at 850,000) what goes on in the world-why the wind blows, what makes a cake rise, how water comes out of a kitchen tap. To explain rain, he boils water in a coffee pot, compares the steam to clouds, and shows how "rain" will condense on the sides of a glass held over the spout. He demonstrates static electricity with a charged rubber comb, lets it pick up a cluster of cork filings and then release them in a miniature snowstorm the moment they are oppositely charged. Using...
...into building a small plant at Stockton, with an option for her to buy. In 1935, her first year, she lost $1,000 but paid all bills. She proved her resourcefulness; once, when the boilers failed, she got a railroad to move in a locomotive, used its steam to complete the canning before the tomatoes spoiled. She designed a conveyor-belt feeder which is now used by other canners...