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Facilities Manager Robert E. Lyng said yesterday that the source of trouble may be settlement in the building's foundation, which, he explained would lower the floor almost one-half inch and disrupt supporting beams and underground conduits...
...terror. Roger ran around the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pigflesh appeared. Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch, and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her. The butterflies still danced, preoccupied in the center of the clearing...
...fizz and fever, the seventh and final race that broke the New York Yacht Club's 132-year-old hold on the Cup and ended the longest winning streak in sports, had been billed in advance as the Race of the Century. It was that, every hard-fought inch...
Last week Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated a small, simple device that can do many of the jobs now done by vacuum tubes. Called a "Transistor," it is a slim metal cylinder about an inch long. Inside are two hair-thin wires whose points press, two-thousandths of an inch apart, on a pinhead of germanium...
...mall needed new steps to cover a yawning cavity where foundation and structure had parted. On many city streets, rows of boxlike shops have plunged several feet below crumbling sidewalks. Deep cracks creep along concrete walls of office buildings and townhouses. Floods strike if it rains more than one inch an hour. In early September a three-hour cloudburst covered most of the city with a foot of water...