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There is a bad leak in the roof of Harvard Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/14/1883 | See Source »

...brig Addie Benson has arrived at Provincetown, having on board the captain and fourteen of the crew of the ship Screamer, who had been rescued in mid-ocean from their life-boats, after the sinking of their ship from a leak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 3/20/1882 | See Source »

...destroy all remembrance of former suffering and discomfort from cold rooms, in the minds of many occupants; and, consequently, complaints are beginning to be made of some minor discomforts and inconveniences arising from steam-heating. Complaint is made of the noise; and one Yale man writes: "They frequently leak all over the carpet, and they don't give the look of comfort to a room which a fire does. But the plan has its advantages: A room can be heated in a very short time, and the temperature regulated easily, though I have always noticed that the rooms heated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE WORLD. | 3/9/1882 | See Source »

Behold us at sea. The second day out the great American Humbug broke her screw, and also sprang a leak, because one of the side plates had not been properly fastened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT AMERICAN HUMBUG. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...Biler," sort of base-burning stove tipped over. Cylinders, like teapots. Driving-wheels about the size of the largest felt hat you would see in the College Yard. No cab; Bill "straddles" the rear of the "biler." No smoke stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOUTHERN LIGHTNING EXPRESS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

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