Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under "Ventilation and Heating" we find the following : "Windows and doors should close tightly, but the upper sash should let down, and there should be ventilators over the doors." And again, "cold air should always enter near the top of the room, through the ventilator or over the upper sash, according to the direction of the wind." The temperature comfortable to the majority of persons is given as 68 Fahrenheit, and open fire-places, grates or open stoves are recommended as the best heating apparatus. "Any of these," he says, "ensures almost perfect ventilation, as well as supplies a pleasant...
...Yale societies is a very troublesome one just at present. Frame time to time, we hear of some distinguished graduate who attacks these societies of his alma mater and who ridicules the customs to which they give rise. We, at Harvard, have long made a standing joke of the air of mystery which attaches to all the numerous pins which decorate the waistcoats of our Yale friends. And now the cry of reform is raised by an undergraduate of that college. While we do not doubt that investigation will do good to almost anything, we fear that any investigation...
...minutes Lamar made a fair catch in front of Wesleyan's goal, and from this Moffat kicked a goal, the first point made. After some play the ball was forced near Wesleyan's line. The ball was punted by Saxe high and straight up in the air. Judd in trying for a catch, fumbled the ball, and in a second Kimball had a touchdown. From this a goal was kicked. Soon Belknap had a free catch in a favorable place, and Moffat tried for a goal, but failed. When the ball was returned Lamar seized it, and, by a beautiful...
...named. Two and sometimes three feet in the walk and amble are always on the ground. In the trot, rack, canter and run the horse in certain positions does not touch the ground at all. Especially is this case in a swift run when the horse is in the air more than half the time. With the stereoptican and Zoopraxiscohe the movements of horses walking, trotting cantering, jumping, etc., men walking, running, boxing, wrestling, turning somersaults, leaping, etc., as well as different movements of oxen, goats and dogs were clearly portrayed. A number of pictures of old models constructed...
...yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan man seized it, and a Princeton man seized him, and, after slinging him round and round two or three times, threw him away in a disgusted manner. He landed about on the point...