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...Joseph R. Beever, of Mt. Vernon, O.; Hugh C. Bertsch, of Dayton, O.; Parke N. Bossart, of Owatonna, Minn.; L. King Cooperrider, of Columbus, O.; Jesse W. Croach, Jr., of Paducah, Ky.; William H. Daughaday, of Winnetka, Ill.; Samuel M. Fahr, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Otto W. Fick, Jr., of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert W. Harvey, of Kansas City, Mo.; Leonard C. Holvik, of Elbow Lake, Minn.; Donald F. Hornig, of Milwankee, Wis.; Ben F. McCamey, Jr., of Memphis, Tenn.; Phill C. Neal, of Oak Park, Ill.; Robert L. Peasok, of Peninsula, O.; Mathew D. R. Riddell, of Urbana, Ill.; Allen...
...Specially constructed on the ship were eight staterooms made of wood, metal and asbestos panels submitted as fireproof by various manufacturers. In each stateroom were piled 750 Ib. of tinder-dry oak logs and scrap kindling, representing the combustible material in an average stateroom. Located inside and outside each room were electric thermocouples connected with dials in a recording room. In each stateroom the experts started a fire, let it roar. In each case the inside heat reached 1,700°. This made the half-inch steel plates of the Nantasket turn red-hot and buckle. Glass doors cracked...
...fresh from the Government Printing Office. Nodding happily to library workers, doctors and military men whom he passed, Major Hume, a medium-tall Kentuckian, pushed through the swinging shutter of his office door, put hat and coat in a wardrobe whose dried panels rattled, sat down at the solid oak desk which all preceding librarians of the greatest medical library on earth have used...
...Mary most of them at once liked best, the frank and "shippy" use of every imaginable kind of wood in her walls, panels, bas reliefs and sculptures. Among more than 50 kinds of wood, alert fanciers assisted by Cunard handbooks were soon spotting avoidire, petula, zebrano, bubinga, makore, tiger oak, patapsko, peroba, pomla, blackbean. Some of the wood had been sprayed with aluminum glaze and gleamed like silver. Definitely and handsomely the keynote of the Queen Mary's modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood. Witty new Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing...
History and Literature Prize, of $50, to the member of the Junior class in Harvard College who shows the greatest promise in the field of History and Literature, to Howard F. Schemer '37, of Oak Park, Illinois...