Word: running
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High & Dry. Last week New York, and many of the 80 surrounding towns which suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great barren expanses of frozen mud; only 33.4% of the city's 253 billion gallons of stored water was left and the supply was being relentlessly lowered at a rate of some 800 million gallons every...
...process now used at Rifle is simple. The shale is blasted from the surrounding cliffs, run through a rock crusher, burned in retorts; the gases given off in this process are distilled into oil ready for the refinery...
...Manhattan's Vat-Craft Corp. displayed a machine which uses radioactive material to dye fabrics. The fabric is first run through a dye solution containing a harmless uranium compound, then dipped into a photo-sensitizing solution. In a light radiation chamber, the color is "developed" in much the same way as a photographic film, and the pigments become an integral part of the fabric...
...varsity squash team defeated the Hartford Golf Club and Trinity College in two away matches last Saturday to run its season's record to seven wins and three losses. The weekend scores were 5 to 3 and 7 to 2 respectively...
Veteran sprinter Harvey Thayer and sophomores Tom McGrath and Ron Berman took three out of four heats in the 600-yard dash. No final was run...