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Millions of miles away in space, says Harvard's Astronomer Donald H. Menzel, the sun revolves like a tremendous lawn sprinkler. From its seething corona dense clouds of hydrogen squirt out at speeds up to 600 miles a second. Every so often one of those clouds hits the earth and bathes the planet in a shower of solar gas. But earthlings are protected by bumpers of magnetic force-invisible bars that stretch from pole to pole...
...sounded inside the building to warn its occupants. When some student eventually discovered the long-smouldering blaze, he was merely able to bang on a few doors on the floor and shout a word of warning, since the smoke soon became densely acrid. Shortly, however, the operation of several sprinkler heads rang a gong on the building's exterior near the front sidewalk, but this could not be heard in many of the suites where radios were playing or students were asleep. The fact that several men were unaware of the fire some time after it was first discovered shows...
Captain Edward F. Caldwell of the Fire Department said that very rarely do the sprinkler tappets burst without being melted by fire or snapped by force...
Building and Grounds authorities described the damage as "negligible," reporting that the sprinkler system was again in operation. No personal property damage was reported by room occupants...
...Sprinkler system pipes broke in the north entry of Thayer Hall at 11:45 p.m. last night and flooded the first floor and cellar with six inches of water...