Word: loft
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment. The editorial room is connected by a ladder with bunks on a loft above, where the managing editor sleeps, and next to it is, invariably, a room fitted with an opium bunk and a lay out. Evidences of domestic life are about the place - pots, kettles and dishes taking up about as much room as the press. If an editor finds that journalism...
...with an inferior one the next. The choice was made by classes, beginning with the seniors, the man who had occupied the most undesirable room the year before being allowed to choose first, and so on; those who had particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft in Massachusetts. There were certain privileged characters who were given a choice before the rest of their class, such as the President's freshman who chose first, followed by the instructors freshmen in the order of their patron's seniority. It will be seen that by this arrangement, Holworthy...
...Club need not fear for the success of their great venture. The peculiar formation of the stage in Sanders was found to be a great drawback to an easy utilization of the entire space, and it was only by employing a frieze to conceal the supports of the music loft that any degree of success could be attained. Upon either side of the stage will be a Roman house containing each a door. The back of the stage will be of a neutral shade, though the walls of the houses will extend some distance toward the centre of the background...
...elevator, there will be four box stalls and five extra-wide stalls, a large room for dogs, a pharmacy or drug room, and apartments for attendants. This floor will be lighted from above and from the sides. The third story will contain work-rooms, harness-room, hay and grain loft, and a bedroom for the house surgeon. This floor will be reached from the second by a stairway, as well as by the elevator. The elevator will be large enough to take up the largest animal treated, and will be used in taking up the ailing horses, etc., brought...
...article in the last Advocate, we 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...