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...made of two parts of wheat and one of rye. It is cooked whole without grinding. The grain is just as it comes from the field and is put in a double boiler and cooked until the kernels of wheat burst open. This sometimes takes four or five hours. " 'We cook up a batch of it, put it in the ice chest and get some out and warm it up each morning. I suppose it will last for a week or ten days without getting sour.' " Interrogated as to whether they might add Coolidge Porridge to their line...
...pressure in the vacuum tank, Dr. Claude explained, is low enough to cause the 80º surface water to boil, give off steam. When he finished his explanation, he pressed a switch, started his sea-machine to work. Shortly the steam began to turn a turbine adjacent to the boiler. Rushing through the turbine into an empty tank cooled by the 40º undersea water, the steam was condensed by the lowered temperature...
...among the care-free Greenlanders the atmosphere had a pleasant languor which seems to be rather lacking in Cambridge this fall. Of course, the Square, since the Vagabond's day has always been something of a cross betwen a boiler-works and a bedlam, but the solemn quiet of the Yard seems to have been rather unceremoniously encroached upon. Way up in the North one can't expect to be up on all of the latest developments, so it was with considerable surprise, and just a tinge of regret, that the Vagabond observed the new building operations on the Yard...
Members of the 67th Congress (1921-23) were not surprised last week to hear that their most eccentric colleague, Manuel Herrick, 54, Republican, of the Eighth Oklahoma District, had been arrested by Federal Dry agents while firing for $15 per week the boiler of a 500-gal. still in the remote reaches of St. Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against...
...principle, old to physicists, rests on the fact that water's boiling point is governed by pressure. Lower the pressure sufficiently and water will boil at room temperature. Why not, reasoned Inventor Claude, put warm surface sea water (between 79-86° F. in tropical seas) in a boiler, reduce the pressure and set it to boiling? Cold water could be brought up from 5,000 ft. below the sea's surface to condense the exhaust, maintain the vacuum. The cheap steam thus generated would whirl turbines, make electricity...