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...average for schools is one and one-quarter per week, and for college buildings 1.67 per month. As to precautions against fire, iron doors are considered very safe, but are in reality very dangerous, as a hot fire will cause them to curl within five minutes, leaving an open space at the top and bottom for the fire to enter. The best doors are made of strong planks covered with tin, and will withstand a fire for hours...
...Curl, frizz, and braid, and bang thy hair...
...change in the cuisine has taken place, and I am afraid that these lines were not read in the right spirit by her to whom they were addressed; perhaps she never got them, - perhaps she used them for curl-papers, - perhaps (oh, bitter thought!) she cannot read...
When we make a brilliant recitation we squirt, or, more commonly, rush. With us this "consummation devoutly to be wished" is the result of grinding or digging. At Williams they grub and make a high-ti.* At the University of Virginia, curl was their synonym for this successful ending of work. At Princeton grinding is called poling, from the verb to pole...
When her lip began to curl...