Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tests will be conducted on the military field of the University. A tile tube two feet in diameter and a block long has been laid on the ground. If the experiment proves successful on this scale, larger apparatus will be set up in a field at least a quarter of a mile square, to make possible more accurate results. The experiments have to do with rays of light thrown through the large tube. Light is believed to consist of ether waves. When a body moves through a medium which is itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing...
...situation seem to be that Cuba's railway troubles are caused by the Island's attenuated shape. It is cheaper for sugar companies to build a short road to the coast and put their sugar directly aboard ship than to patronize the " public" railways which run lengthwise of tile country, whose freight rates are expensive and whose service is inadequate. The Tarafa bill would improve the railways at the expense of the Cuban sugar industry. As Colonel Tarafa himself pointed out, Americans are about equally heavily interested in both industries. In Cuba it is sometimes said that the National City...
...Loucheur, formerly Minister for the Liberated Regions, went to Lon don to confer with British politicians about the Ruhr, and in spites of tt maze of facts coming from the hos tile section of the Paris press, it appears that M. Loucheur's visit, while not in any way official, was m point of fact made with the cognizance of Premier Poincare...
These improvements are peculiarly expensive due to the nature of the ground. It will be necessary to lay draining tile in several feet of cinders surmounted by a heavy layer of dirt and clay before the ground will be in shape...