Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plastic plumbing to save more money, along with an aerobic sewage-disposal system (including garbage grinder) that greatly reduces water use. A newly designed toilet needs only 1 gal. of water at a time compared to 6 gal. for current models. Electrical wiring through the house comes in a preassembled package, ready for much faster installation that cuts high-cost labor...
...front of mammoth Hangar 10 at Washington's National Airport last week, the First Lady of the U.S. smashed a bottle of water from the seven seas on the fuselage of a Pan American Boeing 707-and officially ushered the U.S. into the commercial jet age. With water still dripping from a steel plate installed to protect it from Mamie Eisenhower's blow, the newly christened jet clipper America was pulled out onto the apron while 6,000 guests looked on. An hour later the plane screamed down a 7,000-ft. runway and off to Baltimore, where...
...debts at high interest rates. To climb out, Coleman negotiated a swap with the See-burgs of $1,200,000 in cash for the $2,000,000 owed in notes, borrowed another $700,000 from them. Siegel raised more from Philadelphia's Donner Foundation and the New York Water Corp. In addition, they sold off their Fort Pitt clothing and beer business for $3,000,000 plus a hefty beer royalty from the new brewery owners. With Seeburg's cash position in shape, they were able to pay off their bank debts for the original Fort Pitt deal...
...were "the realest expression of what Harvard means today.... They are dreamers and often poets." And so, in his undergraduate years, Jack Reed joined the Christian Association, St. Paul's Society, the Memorial Society, Debating Club, Oracle, Round Table, Dramatic Club, Symposium, Hasty Pudding--and became captain of the water polo team, Ibis of the Lampoon, Editor of the Monthly, manager of the Banjo, Glee, Guitar and Mandolin Clubs, and President of the Western and Cosmopolitan Clubs...
...often man does what he knows not! Certainly, I do miss the hot water; but, Mr. Finley, far more important, so very far more important, has been the vacancy I feel in the depths of my being, the loneliness, indeed the despair I sense at the loss of hearty House fellowship that lies in the soul of Harvard College, founded...