Word: dust
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Jarvis Field by the score of 6 matches to 3. The University team won four of the six matches in singles, and two of the three matches in doubles. The play on both sides was good, although the players were handicapped by the high wind and clouds of dust...
...Pierre, Martinique, and the overseer and men of the sugar refinery at Orange Hill. The prisoner was in a heavily constructed masonry cell having two small openings for air, and this cell was protected by the brow of a spur of cliffs. The man was burned somewhat by hot dust but was otherwise unhurt. In the case of the men at Orange Hill, they were in a large cellar which was absolutely closed. The explosive blast which followed the ignition of gases by lightning killed every one where there was open circulation of air, while the men in the cellar...
...serious as the price of bituminous coal is very little higher than that which has been paid for hard coal. As the supply of Franklin coal is practically exhausted Cannel will have to be used in students' rooms in the College dormitories and considerable inconvenience may result from the dust occasioned...
...been made that this building be situated on some part of the quadrangle bounded on three sides by Oxford street, Kirkland street, and Divinity avenue, as this situation is near to many working buildings of the University, to the two dining halls, and is free from noise and dust. The committee is not prepared to recommend finally any situation, but is inclined to favor the present one in the southeast corner of the College Yard, as it is probably nearer the centre of College population and makes the Library almost the first building seen by visitors coming from Boston...
...interior of the building is finished in dark stained oak and white painted plaster. To make it impossible for any dust to accumulate there are no corners in the building; the usual angles have been rounded off. The heating and ventilation system is of the newest and most efficient type, and provides for freeing the air from all dust by taking it through cheesecloth. The building is heated by hot-air, except for the corridors which are heated by steam and hot water radiators...