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Sentimental graduates, remembering with a time hallowed fondness chill mornings, icy water, and a sticky-cold pump handle or an occasional hilarious nocturnal dousing, advocate the "restored pump" as a Tercentenary memorial to a Colonial Yard cluttered up with pumps, no less, "stacks of firewood, beer barrels, and outhouses...
...President Kirkland in the first artistic landscaping undertaken in the Yard eliminated the beer barrels and the untidy wood yard, but the pump remained as a gathering place for students and an object of hilarious pranks, until 1901, when it was destroyed, an easy target for a "Med Fac" exploit...
...General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents of the Bank of France, potent oligarchs of orthodox finance, soon took...
...appropriation left, Senator Connally promised that he "and some other Senators" would try to see that it got not another dollar. When he had finished his tirade, Senator McAdoo, President Wilson's onetime son-in-law and Wartime Secretary of the Treasury, rushed up to pump his hand...
...Spray pumps also developed into pumps for washing food. From food-washers came automobile washers, and from automobile washers a line of motorcar equipment including brake-testers and wheel-aligners. Thus many a Food Machinery product sprang from the spray pump, which Food Machinery still sells...