Word: powder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sins in divers and manifold ways. In silence she endures the infliction of "Harvard" Shakespeares, of "Harvard" bookracks and of "Harvard" streets and cowpaths in almost every hamlet of Massachusetts. What will be the next indignity to be put upon her we cannot guess - perhaps a Harvard baking powder or a Harvard infants' food...
...powder magazine exploded at Guayaquil, Ecuador, yesterday, causing the death of ten persons...
...tons of powder exploded at a powder mill at Windsor, Ont., yesterday. Only one life was lost...
Wednesday evening at about eleven o'clock some one exploded an iron kettle full of powder in the hospital with the intention of blowing that building up. Several windows and a door were demolished...
...dress which was made to wear with a collar and was not meant to be seen. After she had managed to effect her purpose with a considerable outlay of pins, her looking-glass showed her the necessity of another application of the bit of chamois skin kept in her powder-box. Mrs. Butterfield then descended to ask Mrs. De Sorosis if there were any powder on her face, and found that lady in the kitchen with a "new girl," as she expressed it, doing her best to explain in a short time the possibilities open to a connoisseur...