House mark

Soddy introduced the term, but it was Dr. Margaret Todd who coined it. This was done at a dinner party in 1913 at the home of Soddy s father-in-law. Sir George Beilby. A plaque on the house marks the occasion. 

Suppose Aislabie had stopped loving me. Suppose this episode with the house marked the end of his love I couldn t think of any other reason why he would ignore my wishes. Unless this was how marriages always were. How would I know In the last year or so, Aislabie had done exactly as he wanted, but then I had never asked for anything other than what he chose to give me. 

MKI The Mark I containment consists of two separate structures (volumes) connected by a series of l.irae pipes One volume, the dry well, houses the reactor vessel and primary system components. The other i oUmic is a torus, called the wetwell, containing a large amount of water used for pressure suppression and as, i heai sink. The Brunswick units use a reinforced concrete structure with a steel liner. All other M,uk 1 cnni.un ments are free-standing steel structures, The Mark I containments are inerted during plant oper.mon i. prevent hydrogen combustion. 

Exhibition of 1851 marked one of the positive turning points, with a separate boiler plant providing steam to power exhibits in the enormous Crystal Palace, a 600-meter-long glass structure. A similar exliibition, complete with separate boiler house, was held in New York two years later. 

Safety signs of approved types, available from laboratory supply houses and safety equipment dealers, should be posted in appropriate spots. The door leading out of the laboratory should be marked EXIT, while the door to a back room should be marked NO EXIT. The location of a fire extinguisher must be clearly marked. Signs are available for every type of hazard. Homemade signs not conforming to official standards should not be considered. 

Hurst J.L. (1987). Function of urine-marking in a free-living population of house mice, Mus domesticus, Anim Behav 35, 1433-1442. 

Hurst J.L. (1989). The complex network of olfactory communication in populations of wild house mice Mus domesticus urine marking and investigation within family groups. Anim Behav 37, 705-725. 

Hurst J.L., Robertson D., Tolladay U. and Beynon R. (1998). Proteins in urine scent marks of male house mice extend the longevity of olfactory signals. Anim Behav 55, 1289-1297. 

With Kay gone, the house is quieter, but we realise how much his work as a painter has kept all us craftsmen up to the aesthetic mark as he used to say, in the dramatic manner of the young, he had no allegiance to anything but art. Gareth in particular misses him he... 

His arguments for changing nothing emerge with the briskness of someone who doesn t want to be persuaded, for reasons too deep to be uprooted by mere common sense. I look at him, and in the fading light see Mark s photograph behind his shoulder. You don t want to sell the house, do you ... 

Not for a while, I guess. Takes time to publicize, says Mark coolly. Not every day a fourteenth-century chantry ruin with attached Arts and Crafts country house comes on the market. After all, why should he be feeling anything It was all a very long time ago, as Grandmama used to say when I asked about her brother who died in the Great War. 

No, always. Mark, you don t know—you ve no idea—how often after you left... every day something needed you. My voice is cracking painfully in my throat. In the workshop, in the house, something that you made work and no one else could. Every day. Only you weren t there. ... 

It isn t a shack it s as solid as the house, Grandpapa says. It only needs patching up. Mark would have done it already if it wasn t pouring. ... 

The difference is that Mark s here, behind me, tall and warm as he follows me into the house, his voice filling the emptiness and his hands dealing competently with bag and baggage his by the front door, mine at the foot of the stairs. 

Portal page to the Preface (by Sax Rohmer) and 6 sections. Transcribed by Mark House. 1925 edition. 

This is a translation of part of the text made by Leone Muller and transcribed by Mark House. This entry page, plus 13 others. 

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