Word: burn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unavailing however, and he was forced to run upstairs and inform a friend, who rung in an alarm from the Square. As soon as the engine appeared the fire was quickly extinguished, not however, until it had already taken hold of the wooden partitions and began a little to burn the beams on the first floor. The occasion will be long remembered as the most informal meeting between faculty and students for many months...
Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, will sell to-day a transcript of Burn's poems, in his own handwriting, on eighty folio pages. This manuscript varies in many instances from the printed edition and other known transcripts...
...Holmes, when he is in good humor at his breakfast table, to explain to us how he can expect a dry creed ever to learn anything. A creed is a belief. How can a belief learn to be anything but a belief? As for Harvard being able to burn up the old beliefs, we doubt it. The truth is she is attempting to do so, and, unfortunately, giving us nothing in their place. - Mobile Register...
...received plenty of encouragement to-day. The college town was crowded with Alumni and other friends of the institution, who wished to attend the funeral of Dr. Hodge. Without exception they supported Dr. McCosh in the position he has taken, and if the ears of the Autocrat did not burn to-day, there's no dependence to be placed in the old superstition. - N. Y. Times...
...should be cut off immediately, and not taken off. An injured arm must be both slung and tied firmly to the chest. In fractures, a joint is made; in dislocations, a joint is taken away. This affords a rough diagnosis. splints are used to prevent movement in the joints. Burns and frost-bites are very serious. In the former, the clothing must be lifted off most carefully, and flour or grease should be spread over the burn, to protect it from the cool air. In conclusion, dislocated bones must never be set, unless the patient can be put under...