Word: directness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first floor is the dining-room, the office, a large parlor and three bedrooms. The second floor consists of twelve bedrooms. The third floor is made up of servants' and nurses' quarters, which can be converted into bedrooms if necessary. The building will be heated by the direct-indirect system and will be lighted by gas. These floors are provided with both rooms and closets...
...right Waters, Mackie, Lewis and Emmons formed one in front of the other and headed by Waters. On the left of Trafford 5 yards to the rear and off to one side were the rest of the men with the exception of Lake who stood in a direct line back of the ball. At the given signal Waters' squad started and went tearing down the field by Trafford. They were met by the other squad just where the ball was. Lake closed in behind and was passed the ball and then the whole mass of men rushed forward...
...publish in another column our plans for receiving and giving out the election returns. We have made arrangements with the Western Union Telegraph Co. by which we are to receive direct from New York the official returns; and these returns we shall cast by stereopticon upon a screen at Joll's barber shop, over Claflin's drug store in the squre. We cannot tell when we shall receive our first returns but they will be cast upon the screen as fast as they come till the final one is received. Since we have made formal arrangements with the proper authorites...
...rich were more highly protected, to raise the prices. Wages, again, had increased, he said, according to the statistics of Mr. Peck of New York, who quoted 90,000 individual cases, as to the prosperity of the country, Mr. Stone showed that the Democratic platform claimed a direct loss, owing to increased mortgages on farms. He further claimed that England supported the measure for Free Trade in this country, for the purpose of bolstering up her own shattered interests...
Anyone, now a student, not born in Massachusetts, can register, providing that he has lived in Cambridge for six months since he became of age; and providing that be is self-supporting, whether by his direct exertions or his own income...