Word: shafted
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...monument would be very simple,--probably a single shaft of the obelisk type. It would be built of Vermont marble or Quincy granite, rising to a height of about one hundred feet...
Leonard W. Williams, Ph.D., of Cambridge, Instructor in Comparative Anatomy at the Medical School, was instantly killed at the Medical School buildings on Longwood avenue, Boston, yesterday afternoon. In some manner he was caught between the car and the side of the shaft of an elevator as he was going to the meeting of one of his classes, and was crushed before the car could be stopped...
...station is the placing of the electric light wires out of view. Everything will be done, in fact, to make the interior of the stations as attractive and convenient as possible. The ventilation of the Boston end of the tunnel will be accomplished by an immense ventilating shaft which will enter the tunnel just over the westerly end of the Park street platforms...
...contents of the Engineering Journal for April are as follows: "The Application of the Fan Blower to the Mechanical Shaft", by C. S. Dow '97; "Modern Stage Settings, Shakesperian and Otherwise", by F. C. Brown; "On Simplicity of Method in Elementary Dynamics", by E. V. Huntington '95; Editorial...
...white limestone. Later on was erected around the grave a low wall of dried red brick, which contrasted vividly with the yellow sand of the desert. In its final form the mastaba consisted of a great rectangular stone structure with sloping sides. In its centre was a deep shaft into which was lowered the corpse, and then the hole was filled in with sand and debris. A second chamber, isolated in the wall of the mastaba, contained statues of the decreased, and here was supposed to well the spirit of the dead. In front of this room was executed another...