Word: sashes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...division aids will wear a soft black hat or chapeau, dark sack coat, white gloves or gauntlets, white trousers, top boots or leggings and will carry a baton. The Chief of Division will be distinguished by a corn color and white sash; division aids by red sashes, which will be worn over the right shoulder and fastened at the left side...
Under "Ventilation and Heating" we find the following : "Windows and doors should close tightly, but the upper sash should let down, and there should be ventilators over the doors." And again, "cold air should always enter near the top of the room, through the ventilator or over the upper sash, according to the direction of the wind." The temperature comfortable to the majority of persons is given as 68 Fahrenheit, and open fire-places, grates or open stoves are recommended as the best heating apparatus. "Any of these," he says, "ensures almost perfect ventilation, as well as supplies a pleasant...
...school in general, and to submit to the application of the big flat ruler of the teacher in particular. But when the latter went for this instrument of authority, Bill went for the window, out of which he had got his head and shoulders, when down came the sash on his back, and held him fast. The teacher appreciated the advantage the situation conferred, and applied so vigorous a castigation that it went to the very root of the resistance. After that order reigned in that particular school' us while J. S. was in charge.-[Gazette...
...entrance was made Tuesday evening into No. 31 Weld, on the ground floor in the north entry, occupied by Mr. Sherman Hoar, '82. A pane of glass was broken out, and through this aperture it was made possible to unlock the sash and raise the window and enter. A neighbor says he heard a slight crash of glass about 11.30 P. M., when, it is supposed, the intruder entered. But, curiously and fortunately enough, Mr. Hoar has as yet been unable to discover that any property was stolen, though some disarrangement of things was noticed...
...tumbled all my clothes - dress suit and all - down upon it. Spiz! wrurr! like ten thousand furies. Was there no way to stop the cursed thing? I could hear Boxer stirring. There was a movement downstairs. Clang! whirr! clang! I rushed frantically to the window, tore up the sash, and hurled the infernal machine out into the air. Clang! jang! whirr! it mocked at me, as it whirled off. I heard a half-suppressed chuckle behind me. I turned round savagely, the perspiration pouring my face. There, at the door, all dressed and ready equipped for fishing, his hand over...