Word: dust
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fond mother on visiting her son at the University and looking around his room with an anxiouseye, asked: "My son, do you ever sweep under the deed?" "Oh, yes, mother," was the earnest reply, "it is so much easier than to use a dust-pan."-[Spectator...
...used when crossing the field to go on the boards which will be laid, and not on the newly leveled ground, for several hundreds of dollars have been expended on it, and unless a sod is formed before next spring the place will become hardened and a mere dust pan. When it is finally completed we do not think we overstate in saying that Harvard will have the finest track in the country...
...frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with a broad band of bas-relief near the top. The bas-relief represents action and attitudes of riding a race. The whole is surmounted by a cap or cover of elegant design, bearing a winged wheel flying through bronzed silver dust...
...determined to see Memorial Tower. Thursday we visited it, and shall not soon forget its beauties, nor its coal-gas, either. By the kindness of the "warden of the tower" we were allowed to pass through the forbidden door "into the loft." This abounds in unfinished woodwork and undisturbed dust. Through the middle runs the picturesque ventilator, which might be converted into an elevator for passengers to the tower (two cents a trip). After much climbing we reach the balcony (where the pigeon holes are), and here the elevator ends and the misery from coal-gas begins. After climbing...
After a woful experience of cutting winds and clouds of dust, the authorities of Cambridge have finally resurrected their watering carts from the winter's retirement, and set them to work on the streets. The beneficial results of this policy suggests that something be done also to lay the dust on the road-ways through the college grounds, where it is so disagreeable in its effects, especially since the late pleasant weather has caused so many windows to be kept open...