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...inches wide and 10 1-2 inches deep. The frame is made of white pine, and all parts are mailed and not glued, as popular superstition would have it. The cover is made of solid pieces of Spanish cedar, and is also only one-eighth of an inch thick, and is mailed on, not glued. The deck is covered with waterproof silk...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory. President Karl Taylor Compton of the Institute and Professor George Russell Harrison, who has charge of the new shop, showed the physicists about. The new building is constructed like and really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building has its own, separate foundations, is further insulated from the outer husk by 6 in. of dead air. Thermostat control and automatic air conditioners...
...familiar sawed-off figure of Abie with his slick black hair, big nose, thick lips and mustache, cigaret and smoke rings, did not appear in the Graphic's strip. Instead there was this lettered dialog issuing from the transom of a door labelled "Z. Eppess. Plastic Surgeon...
Bert Haines, Freshman crew coach, took the first trip at 2.30 o'clock, setting a course up the river beyond the Cambridge Hospital, where the ice became so thick that further progress was impossible. Haines hopes to have the floats put down by the early part of next week, and expects to get the shells in the water as soon as possible thereafter...
Fiery Fury. Governor Murray spruced up for the occasion. His lean wrinkled face had been shaved. His mop of thick greying hair was carefully combed. He wore a clean white shirt and his blue suit was pressed. Those who went to Collinsville to see a rustic figure in mismatched clothes and red suspenders were disappointed. But there was no disappointment in the fiery fury of the Murray speech. He began, as usual, by harking back to his early days when he was "born in a cotton patch during a November snowstorm; rocked in the cradle of adversity; chastened by hardship...