Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Physically as well as financially is Consolidated linked to Steam. Just as power companies exchange power over interconnecting lines, so Consolidated and Steam are interconnected for exchange of steam. Manhattan's tall towers need most steam on early winter mornings when electric loads are light. So to New York Steam Consolidated has long lent steam from the boilers in its generating stations. In summer New York Steam returns the compliment. Steam's all-time peak load was Feb. 9, 1934, when the mercury in Manhattan thermometers shriveled to 13° below zero...
...Mind Mislaid is that the public has been overtrained, now takes mental illness much too seriously. A nervous breakdown, says 75-year-old Author Brown, is no worse than typhoid fever or double pneumonia. In the genial, conversational vein of his entertaining miscellanies of 19th Century New York history he now offers a relaxing account of his own three-year stay in famed Bloomingdale Hospital to prove the point...
...just reward of philandering and boozing. ''Love nests rear nothing but 'cuckoos.' ' Then again, the hit-or-miss breeding of the human race "is largely to blame." His own breakdown occurred in 1929, after directorship of the Museum of the City of New-York, which he had worked ten years to found, was turned over to "a younger man from the wild and woolly West" (41-year-old Hardinge Scholle...
...demand as a speaker at business men's luncheons. A free man again, he found the sane world much nicer but also stranger than a mental hospital. What best evokes for him his asylum days is the worried expression of the people on the streets of New York City, their mutterings to themselves. After four years the only asylum habit that clings to him is counting passengers as they get on and off elevators, to make sure none of them has slipped off to commit suicide...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Charles E. Odegaard, Evanston, Illinois (Ph.D. marshal), Francis M. Rogers 1G, New Bedford (A.M. marshal); Law School: Adrian S. Fisher 3L, German-town, Pennsylvania; Divinity School: Clarke M. Cochrane 3Dv. Albany, New York; Dental School: Charles E. Scribner 4Dn, West Medford; Medical School: Joseph R. Frothingham, Boston...