Word: warmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week's victory left President Chiang as firmly established as he had been at any time in the past year. Rebel generals, severely practical, talked of suspending hostilities until March and warmer weather...
...earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than the depths; hence the work of Georges Claude, member of the French Academy of Sciences at Havana, to utilize temperature to run turbines...
...French Academy of Sciences, Dr. H. Barjot, printed in Paris his suggestion to the Academy of a temperature-differential power plant the inverse of Academician Claude's. Dr. Barjot would generate his power in Polar regions where water under the ice is 32° F. (freezing) or warmer and the air above 20° below zero or colder. He would pump sub-ice water into a surface tank partially filled with butane or some other hydrocarbon of low vaporization point. In the tank the ice water would freeze and release it? comparative heat; the heat would volatilize the butane...
President Roosevelt went to the White House with six children, to find only five available bedrooms. Congress gave him $475,455 to renovate, to remove the President's office to a separate wing (1902). He also installed an elevator, an electric plate-warmer, dumb waiters, telephones, typewriters...
...crews will take part in a three-and-a-half mile race tomorrow afternoon, it was announced yesterday by Coach E. J. Brown '96. This race will probably mark the close of the fall rowing season, although crews may be on the river till Wednesday if the weather becomes warmer...