Word: dumb
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...light court. Pneumatic tubes lead from the delivery room to various points on each of the stack floors, and cards calling for books are sent out to certain stations among the stacks where boys receive the demand slips from the tubes, find the books and put them on the dumb waiter which takes them down to the rear of the delivery room...
...April Monthly bears in one particular a grotesque resemblance to Byron's Don Juan when that perpetual lover was sent to sea. In the midst of a lament for the beloved from whom he was separated, Don Juan, usually not at a loss for words, was struck dumb...
...colored man named John Langley who pretended to be deaf and dumb was arrested Monday at 11.30 o'clock coming out of Matthews Hall, by Officer Tom Tevlin and Chief Conolly, both members of the Harvard police force. He showed a letter purporting to come from one John Brown, which stated that he was deaf and dumb and in great need of assistance. Using this letter, he had been begging among the students...
...third floors, are finished in light green, the walls and hangings being of that color, while the woodwork is white. There is a serving room on each floor, equipped with a steam table and other conveniences, to which the food will be brought from the basement kitchen by hydraulic dumb-waiters. The kitchen is in charge of Mr. Cauley, the Union steward...
...purpose of the class is to development physically by a general and pleasant form of all around exercise. This is accomplished in a novel and efficient manner. Five groups of floor exercises are held, consisting of either dumb-bell or wand drills. Between these groups Mr. Schrader inserts a form of dancing, thus combining a training in the finer senses of co-ordination and rhythm with regular exercise. After the floor exercises are completed, eight or nine folk dances modified for couples, are practiced...