Word: rubbish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...style of rope fire-escape has been placed in all rooms of Yard dormitories above the second floor, and all have been thoroughly tested. Some further precautions have also been taken in regard to the storage of inflammable rubbish...
...frequent slides of rock and rubbish are unmistakable signs of the slow wearing process, which often trims sharp peaks into regular slopes. Glaciers which are characteristic of these lofty mountains, wear broad basins in valleys, forcing aside mountain spurs which they cannot go around. The Alaskan glaciers show how ice-fields may enter the sea, carrying down masses of debris and rounding off rock formations in the descent. Sometimes subdued, are depressed and buried in the sea, often to a great depth...