Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...conjunction with the talk, a model of the development, showing the operation of the turbines and sluices with water actually flowing through them, has been set up in the students' smoking room on the first floor of Pierce Hall. The generating station, of which the model is an exact representation, contains four turbines yielding a total of 200,000 horsepower. This is sent over an 145 mile three phase line at a potential of 220,000 volts to the Boston Edison Company's power station at Woburn for re-delivery. The water power station is one of the largest...
...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Robert G. Mitchell set out to divorce her husband. Charge: his scheme to sell his two large automobiles and buy a Baby Austin constituted cruelty. Mrs. Mitchell weighs...
...Battle Creek, Mich., Duane Thornton sprinkled gasoline on his overstuffed furniture to kill moths, rushed to the window to escape the fumes, tripped over an electric light cord. A spark from the dislodged socket set fire to the gasoline-soaked furniture, burned up $3,000 worth of furnishings...
...olden times (Power). Though he has never been in the U. S. he has written some satirical verse about it (Pep). He worked three years on Success, was glad to hear it had been chosen by the Literary Guild for November, helped his wife into his U. S. motor, set out for a tour of warmer countries, will not be back for more than a year. Other books: The Ugly Duchess, Two Anglo-Saxon Plays...
...allowed to slip through with a high grade and no real accomplishment, nor should he be stifled by specialized graduate work. The Summer School is the best at hand to aid the dropped student, but every effort must be made to have courses there conform to the standards set by the college courses of the regular academic year...