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Continuing his researches in Britain, he modernized the smoky English fireplace, improved English kitchens with the Rumford Roaster and the Rumford Stove. He was rich enough by then to donate ?1,000 to the Royal Society for Rumford medals, to be given to those persons who made the most important studies of heat or light (the first medal went to Count Rumford). Hoping one day to return to America, he gave another ?1,000 to the American Academy for the same purpose...
...Pojar. Its pupils: five little Pojars. Near Broadwater, one 82-year-old teacher has to live in the school, cook her meals on a hot plate, sleep on a cot pitched beside her desk. Near Kimball, Teacher Helen Layer is in the same fix: she has one room, one stove, one pupil...
Coach Ed Marion has named 11 men for the New York trip. He is expected to use Jan Jertsen, Stove Chandler, John Hamel, and Walton Rawls in the foil; Harry Ziel, Bob McConaughy, and Bob Marsetta in the saber; George McNair Les Scherer, Phil Erard, and Paul For and in the epee...
...cops broke into the gas-filled Manhattan basement with a sense of dreary familiarity-spectators at a sad and sordid drama which had been enacted a thousand times before in a thousand other cheap rooms. There was the battered stove with its jets silently exhaling death. There were the whisky bottle and the two unwashed glasses. There was the rumpled bed. There were two figures, a man and a woman-motionless, voiceless, impersonal as dummies...
...fitted out a 23-ft. Bermuda-rigged sloop, Felicity Ann, with a 5-h.p. diesel engine, a radio receiving set, pressure kerosene stove, sextant, compass and chronometer. In May she set sail from Plymouth Harbor. Plagued by storms, she was forced to land in Brittany, Spain, Gibraltar, Casablanca. From Casablanca, she headed for the Canary Islands, was overdue 18 days and given up for lost before she finally made Las Palmas in the Canaries. Last week, 65 days later-and eight months after she started-Ann dropped anchor at Portsmouth, Dominica...