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"Other staff members continue to put the collection in order"

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"All onlookers, bystanders, and band members are led into the new Engineering Library by R.H. Blackburn"

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"in the end a few still-damp volumes were taken back to the University of Toronto to complete the drying"

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"the news media showed lingering fascination with the technology of vacuum drying..."

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"in the end a few still-damp volumes were taken back to the University of Toronto to complete the drying"

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"another fog-in-a-vacuum is generated"

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"The crates were rearranged and stacked for greater air circulation"

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"When thawed the books were spread on laundry racks in the vacuum chamber"

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"Moisture drawn from books was collected by de-humidifier"

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"Loading went quickly in the brisk morning air"

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"After 3 hours "up" at 105,000ft., Sgt Handy releases the vacuum for a swift descent"

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"Many of the seriously wet books must be abandoned"

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"Richard Landon interviewed by CFTO-ch 9 News team"

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"Freezer Room, Wallberg Building. 600 saturated civil engineering theses had been flash frozen at -40 degrees F"

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"Exterior wall of Sanford Fleming bldg, north side; the third floor roof, directly above the Engineering Library, burned out and collapsed"

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"Many of the seriously wet books must be abandoned"

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"Saturated books were initially abandoned so that priority could be given to the dry and merely damp... freezing temperatures returned Monday, and the saturated books froze to the shelves."

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"the third floor viewed from the inside"

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"1,000 crates of books are dollied into 'a' storey"

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"By midnight Sunday 600 crates of dry or partly damp books lined the corridors of the Galbraith bldg"

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"in the end a few still-damp volumes were taken back to the University of Toronto to complete the drying"

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