Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nurmi had a small shed of his own in which he put a stove with stones, heated red hot, on top. He used to go in and take his bath. He'd get up on a shelf above the stove and pour water onto the stones. After he got well steamed up he would take a--what is it you say?--a 'bouquet' of sticks and flay himself...
...have to say almost all because some of our fellow-students had no Christmas celebration: they were the patients at the Infirmary, and of all of us, they should have had it. They did not complain, nor did they shed tears about it, but still they perhaps think that it would have been nice if they had had their Christmas fun also. If would have cheered them up and made them forget their troubles for a while. We must see that hereafter they will not be omitted...
...subordinate units. That was the basic idea of the "Quads" which Woodrow Wilson planned for Princeton. President Lowell was himself once a convert to some such idea. But throughout the land educators have continued to lavish money upon laboratory training and research, upon technical and business schools and to shed copiously sentimental tears over each new evidence of the decline in the true spirit of college life. New York Times...
...attention to the problem of the corona, which consists of rays of light appearing around the edge of the moon when it completely covers the sun. What it is made up of is still a mystery to the world and it is hoped that Professor Shapley's observations may shed some light on the subject. His lecture, which is open to the public, is given under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the Gamma Alpha Scientific Society...
Over London dropped with the suddenness of a theatre curtain a dense, dirty, yellow, cold, clammy, blanket of fog. For 24 hours the street lamps shed their ineffectual light, people walked cautiously, busses crashed into one another, policemen controlled traffic with rockets...