Word: chimneyed
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...breadth and depth and stability such as the more haphazard contacts of the outside world never yield. The round of human nature being to so large a degree the writer's habitat the college man enters it by the door instead of through the window or down the chimney...
...given in connection with physical and military training. One of these camps for the students of the Northwest and for men in the East who want to know a bit of what is still the old West, will possibly be situated on the site of Colonel Roosevelt's Chimney Butte Ranch, near Me- dora, North Dakota. There will be others, presumably, including one in Colonel Roosevelt's own home state...
...clock yesterday morning a fire was discovered in the building of the Western Club on Holyoke street and an alarm was sent in. The fire was extinguished with the aid of chemicals, and is thought to have been caused by crossed wires or defective insulation back of the chimney in the Living Room...
Perhaps the most novel feature of the building is the ventilating system. All the air supplied to the building is filtered through canvas bags to free it from dust particles. The hoods have straight outlets to the top and each separate flue has a special chimney-part, arranged so that air is drawn out constantly by the wind. The whole building is constructed with careful attention to the exclusion of dust and dirt, all the rooms having curved hospital bases where the walls meet the floor. The laboratories are lined with tile five-feet high...
...more we see it the better we like it. Scrooge's ghost is not nearly so empty and formal and cold as an ordinary ghost; on the contrary, it is very amiable and warm and merry, and improves on acquaintance. Nor does Scrooge's ghost come slyly down the chimney and pass on like a shadow, for after all it wants to make friends and is always ready to go more than half way in doing so. And it always feels that it has a particular claim on the Yule-tide season...