Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairmont, W. Va.. James F. Gwynn discovered a reservoir of honey cached by a hive of bees behind his kitchen wall. Ingenious James Gwynn rigged up a pipe line from the hive to his breakfast table, now flavors his hot cakes from a little honey spigot directly above his plate. Chase...
...blast a reservoir on his farm at Stanfordville, N. Y., Dr. Edgar Ernst needed 50 Ib. of dynamite, ordered it sent by freight from the du Pont factory in Wilmington, Del. Last week, in a special car pulled by a special engine. Dr. Ernst's dynamite arrived. Confronted with the difficulty of transporting a package no bigger than a soap box which was nonetheless capable of blowing up a complete train, du Pont had hired a whole boxcar, nailed the crate to the floor in the middle, sealed the doors, plastered the outside with placards screaming EXPLOSIVES...
With such a set-up, small wonder that Harvard lays claim to being one of the cultural centers of the nation. As a reservoir of abstract learning, with libraries, laboratories and learned men, she holds a definite trust, both in perpetuating past scholarship and in stimulating the arts and sciences for present day benefits to humanity. A glance at Harvard's contributions to industrial life, for instance, bears striking witness to the value of scientific investigation to the national economy. And most important of all are the men, schooled in the healthy student life or trained professionally in graduate work...
...Brown, briefly took over the sickly State University at Burlington. James Rowland Angell does not like to have it forgotten that he is descended from nine generations of Rhode Islanders and he en joys recalling that since the old Angell farm lies at the bottom of Providence's reservoir, the citizens to this day drink water filtered through his ancestors' bones. But the Harvard Alumni Review made no mistake in its simile. Like a breeze, Angell had in his 53 years moved freely far & wide. His horizon had always been broader than the campus at Burlington, Ann Arbor...