Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...buildings will commence as soon as possible. The Common will be closed and it is probable that accommodations for one complete unit of the school will be erected there. The greater part of the Andover Theological Seminary land and the Palfrey Estate will be used for an instruction shed, and such additional recreation facilities as become necessary. The Government expects to expend a sum of $350,000 on the construction of these barracks and school buildings...
...misses in numbers, it surely must have in collective capacity. There is always more potentiality in Freshmen than in the other groups of undergraduates. We not only expect but we are sure that 1921 will not disappoint the hope of all Harvard men--a hope that it may shed more honor on its guide than all preceding classes...
...rejoicing around the pyre till that which was once a man had become but bones and ashes. There were women in that mob in great numbers, singing at the gala day. Women! Those chivalric and holy women of the South to keep whom pure the last Southern gentleman would shed his romantic blood. The flower of chivalry! Did womanly pity, did womanly sorrow, which is the greatest compassion our race may know, move their hearts then? Did they weep at this bestiality...
Harvard will indeed be glad to welcome men who have already shed their blood for our common cause, and their coming is one of the first significant steps taken in bringing about the co-operation so essential in this great universal war against autocracy...
...fire is in their eyes. Their minds are joyous for the sight of great building crashing, and brave firemen being overcome, and fair heroines on eleventh stories jumping into their anticipating arms. True, such luxuries are seldom realized. The end of the fire-seeking trail is generally a wood-shed or a chicken-house which some urchin has se alight. Fair heroines are scarce; and tall sky-scrapers refuse to burn except at uncertain intervals. Yet there is always hope of some great catastrophe, a second Chicago or Baltimore blaze; or perhaps even such a scene as the movies show...