Word: ironed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground. In each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from the window of the room in the gable to the sill of the blind window about eight feet above the ground. These fire-escapes are to be placed in position soon." Meanwhile Harvard is left to the saving grace...
...comparative merits of the South Boston Iron Company and the West Point foundry have been presented before the House naval affairs committee...
...often more led to complain of than rejoice in the freedom of selection allowed them. For, where there is no guide or support, but each is left to his own responsibility, those who would be most eager for liberty of choice if they had to follow an iron-bound course, often become clamorous for direction when this liberty is granted them. The Johns Hopkins University solves the difficulty in the case by assigning to each student "some member of the academic staff, to whom he will go for advice and assistance, and through whom he will present to the faculty...
...Milwaukee, Wis., yesterday the Bay View Iron Works were damaged $10,000 by fire...
...natural bridge property in Virginia has been sold by the Allegheny Coal and Iron...