Word: flamed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...nothing more than a large receiver of air from which the air can be exhausted. In order to get the rays, however, you must push the exhaustion only to a certain point. Now instead of using the 10,000 cells already mentioned to produce the pale blue flame, a Ruhmkoff coil is introduced, which makes it possible to get a high electro-motive force...
...Harvard now would respond to the call of the country as eagerly as those of forty years ago; let us have the stars and stripes floating above the elms to tell the world that the same spirit now smoulders within the college as that which burst into flame in '61. There is room in front of University or by the side of the drive that runs across from the gate to put in a pole, or the flag might be flown on University itself. If this were done it would do more to decorate the Yard than forty thousand Chinese...
...seen at the University Garden. On entering the gate on Garden street, one finds, on the left hand, arranged in a roockery, a choice selection of the plants which were favorites in English gardens in the time of Queene Anne. Just beyond, there is a brilliant mass of "flame" Azaleas and Rhododendrons, with their humbler relatives from the swamps. Further on is a large group of desert plants, fringed under the higher maples and magnolias, with tree ferns and palms from the conservatory. Fronting these are clustered excellent representatives of the flora of the Australasian colonies. If the walk...
...conscientious performance of the duty laid upon him to be a great poet quand meme, he seems diligently intent on producing fire by the primitive method of rubbing the dry sticks of his blank verse one against the other, while we stand in shivering expectation of the flame that never comes...
...caused yesterday morning a few minutes before twelve, by a small fire in the upper entry of University Hall. The fire occurred in the large wooden box outside the door among a large heap of waste paper, and for a few minutes made a dense smoke, with considerable flame. Fortunately there was a recitation being held at the time on the same floor, for had not some of the students perceived the smoke, the fire would doubtless have gone to the attic immediately overhead, thereby causing considerable damage. As it was, the fire was extinguished with a few pails...