I’ve seen one child bring an airplaneful of passengers to the edge of Valium just by running up and down the aisles for five hours.

My roommates said they were hosting a party inspired by the twenties which I assumed meant the 1920s but it turned out the theme was the 1120s BCE.

The lowered demand for coke during the depression, the necessity of maintaining the gas output and the ready availability of liquefied petroleum gas for underfiring led to the conversion of the North Shore coke plant of Becker ovens at Waukegan, Illinois, to this fuel. […] The thermal efficiency of the underfiring was about five per cent lower and somewhat more attention was required to keep the ovens in balance.

Of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan-Huron had the highest water levels in midsummer and Lake Superior, in early fall.