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Word: tunneling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University has its own subway cable car crossing Mass. Ave. The top of the Boston subway tube is but two feet under the surface of the street, and through this two feet must pass Harvard's main heating tunnel from the Houses to the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

When he was a youngster bumming around the coal fields of the West a generation ago, big, red-headed John Llewellyn Lewis once had the job of driving a mine mule named Spanish Pete. Pete was a mankiller. Rounding a tunnel curve one day, the creature slewed around, reared, raised its hoofs, prepared to bash Lewis against the mine wall. Young John had just enough time to spike Pete between the eyes with the point of the sprag of his coal car. To avoid imminent fine and dismissal, the young mine worker rubbed clay over the prostrate Pete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Miners Meet | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...constant speed propellers ("gear shift of the air"). Arthur Cutts Willard, 58, president of the University of Illinois; the F. Paul Anderson Gold Medal of the American Society of Heating & Ventilating Engineers : for work as an engineer, teacher, author and consultant on the ventilating systems of the Holland Tunnel, the U. S. Capitol, the proposed Chicago subway. Charles Franklin Kettering, 59, vice president and research director of General Motors Corp. ; the Washington Award for engineering (bronze plaque on marble base) : for "contributions to the increase of personal mobility" and eloquent advocacy of the cause of research. Roger Adams, 47, chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Honors | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

...Leonidas R. Harless of Gauley Bridge refused to go to Washington because Mrs. Harless was sick and he was too busy professionally. Nonetheless he wrote that he had "warned many workers who came to me for treatment that continuous work in the tunnel would be extremely dangerous. At the same time, the whole thing has been so grossly exaggerated that the filing of the damage suits by former tunnel workers has become almost a racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Other Rinehart & Dennis officials issued statements in which they claimed that an epidemic of pneumonia, not silicosis, was responsible for scores of deaths at Gauley Bridge. They charged that damage suits were filed by some men proved not to have worked in the tunnel and by others who worked only an hour or two. According to the apologists, the death list from various diseases did not exceed 50 out of some 2,000 workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Silicosis | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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