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Word: systemic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extensive series of heating funnels, eight feet wide and eight feet high, and that the Weeks Memorial Bridge was constructed with the principal idea in view of carrying heat conduits to the Business School, are among the interesting facts gathered in a recent survey of Harvard's heating system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of the University Heating Plant Reveals Several Interesting Facts--Weeks Bridge Built to Conduct Heat | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...from University Hall past the corner of the new library, under Massachusetts Avenue, down Linden Street, under Mt. Auburn Street, and thence to the rear of the then new Gore Hall of the Freshman group. At that point, when the steam pipes were installed, connection was made with the system from the Elevated power plant. The heating service, even at that great distance, proved satisfactory and it was gradually extending until all the Yard buildings, except the house occupied by Professor Palmer, were connected with the central plant. Later the new Fogg Art Museum was brought into the system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of the University Heating Plant Reveals Several Interesting Facts--Weeks Bridge Built to Conduct Heat | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...division under one Faculty could be organized into units as self-sufficient as this. No one familiar with the University would hold such a belief. The existence of the other parts of the University, each under its own Faculty, exercises too powerful an influence to permit such a system...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTIES AND COLLEGES | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

...superintendent, one Hickey, expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system was a new man named Chrysler. "W. P." they called him, aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Picture. Author Lawes has been warden of Sing Sing since 1920. His kingdom averages about 1,700 inhabitants. They make and repair their own clothing, cook and serve their food, run a farm, a school, a library, a chapel, a laundry, a barber shop, a sewage system, a factory which turns out $650,000 worth of products a year, a power plant which, incidentally, supplies the "juice" used in the electric chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sing Sing | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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