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The Structural Engineer, Volume 11, Issue 2, 1933
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Ewart S . Andrews, Vice- President) said that seldom had the work described in a paper been so well illustrated as in this case by lantern slides. He suggested that speakers in the discussion might with advantage express their views as to the manner in which one could calculate the resistance to an anchor block such as was shown in the type B construction referred to in the paper, to which anchor block the large tension rods were attached.
DURING the last few years the term "Stadia" has frequently been used in describing sports enclosures. It is derived from the old Greek word " Stadium," which originally applied to the foot race course at Olympia. This structure was erected in the 3rd century, B.C., and was 630 feet in length, with two parallel tiers of stone seats along each side, joined at one end by a semicircular curve. It is interesting to note that the distance between the two end pylons measured 606.75 feet, and that this was afterwards adopted by the Romans as a measure of distance, eight "Stadia" being equal to one Roman Mile. James Reed
WHEN the fist oil well was sunk by Col. Edwin L. Drake in 1859, the chief aim of the oil refiners from then until the late nineties, when the automobile made its appearance, was the production of paraffin or lamp oil, and all the by-products were surreptitiously emptied into any near-by creek or river, as being the easiest way of disposing of this residue, which was of no apparent use. George Noble