Word: ton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three-fourths of that cost goes for distribution. If it were consumed on a vast scale in factories and homes the cost would be diminished to a point where few people could afford not to use it. Then U. S. grime would be localized in the mining centres...
...basement of the house in which every treasure was moved. Then the vault was bricked up. Doors and corridors had to be rearranged. In order to install a modern air-conditioning system the panelling in several rooms had to be taken apart piecemeal and replaced. Eighteen ten-ton blocks of marble were quarried before Miss Frick found one with just the color she wanted for a fountain in the central court. Mrs. Frick was wont to take her ease in a boudoir on the second floor whose panels had once been painted by Boucher for Mme de Pompadour. This...
...Crimson that defeated the Boston University Freshman last week. Tread Ruml has been moved back to center again, Rabenold and Grandahl are the starting forwards, and McLeod and Lupien will hold down the guard posts. In addition to his first team, Coach Adolph Samborski is taking along ton reserves. If Milton proves a weak opponent, he hopes to get a chance to try those...
...story concerned University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, No. 1 U. S. experimenter in artificial radioactivity, whose 85-ton electromagnet frequently makes scientific news. Solemn young Dr. Lawrence would be horrified to find himself associated with the "death-rays"' of lurid pseudoscience. Actually he was only protecting himself and hi's co-workers from the effects of a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second generated with the help of his electromagnet for use in straightforward atomic experiments...
...truck and trailer of the Gorman Brothers circus rounded a corner in East Orange, N. J., the trailer's cargo, Jap, 50, a gentle, little, four-ton cow elephant, slightly shifted weight. The trailer capsized on Jap, cutting her ear, forelegs and flank. After a few giant trumpetings she lay silently, glowering reproachfully at her keeper, Joseph Zweark. Finally Jap rose, righting the trailer, but she refused to re-enter it. Keeper Zweark subtly led her around the block, casually up to the trailer. Jap sidled off. After two days of wheedling Jap, Keeper Zweark said...