Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...fire because warning was not spread quickly enough. At first pleasant odors were used but were not successful. Workmen did not run when they .sniffed violets or roses. But when experimenters released butyl mercaptan which smells like garlic, miners dropped their tools at once, raced for the exit. The stench safety method has been adopted by the American Standards Association which suggests to mine operators how best to conserve their employes' lives. Although the U.S. Bureau of Mines cannot force operators to obey American Standards, most important operators follow their recommendations. Most up-to-date mines in Montana, Arizona, California...
...electricity were undoubtedly unforeseen mishaps which will not reoccur. Nevertheless there still remained the spectacle of a group of performers, making a stage entrance in their dinner jackets, eating, it seemed, almost as a lesson in manners to the herd seated down in the pit, and then making an exit which gave the signal to the 250-odd undergraduates that the show was ended, that they could leave the room...
...will be closed for the greater part of the year because of the construction taking place, a good opportunity is offered to the library officials to experiment with methods of conducting the inspection. There will probably be several systems tried out before a satisfactory one is found. The broad exit to the Yard must be narrowed sufficiently to examine every man leaving the library. Despite all the disadvantage and nuisance promised in such a step, there is undoubtedly no other solution...
...Latin America, has on all occasions with reference to Pan American Airways versus NYRBA deliberately or ignorantly misstated. . . . The most recent-and one of the most flagrant- examples was last week's TIME report of the consolidation and the purchase of NYRBA Lines by Pan American, entitled "Exit NYRBA...
...exit been later, it would have been less dramatic. Dersingham, suspicious of his ungentlemanly manager, has tried to purloin the Baltic agency for himself. But Golspie is too quick for him, and he manages so that Dersingham finds his firm caught in fatal advance contracts with prices of foreign stock raised prohibitively. At this juncture Golspie, with the resuscitated Lena, embarks for South America, while Miss Matfield, who had finally consented to a weekend trip with her tycoon, forlornly looks for him at Victoria station, waiting to be seduced. The book closes with glimpses of the Smeeth and Dersingham families...