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Steam from the Cambridge Electric Company's boilers enters the three pipes in the Tunnel at a pressure of one hundred pounds per square inch and a temperature of 425-430 degrees Fahrenheit. (Depending on the needs of the University, one or more of these pipes may be shut down.) After going through reducing valves which lower its pressure to about five pounds per square inch, the steam travels to individual buildings where it heats tanks of water. The Houses and most other buildings outside the Yard have their own water reservoirs, including separate tanks for domestic hot water...
...partner spraying shots wildly, Fitzgobbon took command. At net he covered almost every inch of the court; he never lost his own serve, and his overhead seemed infallible...
...help open the World's Fair (see MODERN LIVING). His security men, expecting massive and bitter civil rights demonstrations, had 2,000 New York policemen and 3,000 Pinkerton guards on hand for extra protection. At the Singer Bowl stadium on the fairgrounds, Johnson sloshed through inch-deep puddles of water, made a short speech to a bedraggled crowd of 10,000, then rode to the U.S. pavilion for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. There, the trouble began...
Hartnett was upset; he showed it a week later by flipping over 6'7 1/4" to beat Pardee by an inch and win the Heptagonals. They met again a week later at the ICUA games and Pardee raised the stakes; after tying Hartnett at 6'7", he rolled over 6'9" on the first jump. The Tiger captain crashed through the bar three times...
...vision of apocalypse comes often in that inch of cards beheaded "Eccentric literature," and who is the more sane, the compiler of L'Histoire litteraire des fous or the author of "The basic outline of universology...