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Word: spooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1883-1883
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...Union met last evening in Sever 11 to discuss the question of Woman Suffrage. The principal disputants were Messrs. Hayes, '84, and Richardson, '86, in the affirmative and Messrs. frost, '84, and Hansen, '85, in the negative. The following gentleman spool from the house: Mackintosh, Bowen, Carrier, Roundy, Fraser, in the affirmative and Barnes, Libby, Halbert, C. T. Davis, Lamont and Saunders in resulted as follows: On the merits of the question, affirmative 16, negative 37; on the might of the arguments of the principal disputants, affirmative 16, negative 52; on the whole debate, affirmative 10, negative 32. The question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD UNION. | 11/16/1883 | See Source »

...during the winter an apparatus which connected an alarm clock with a system of weights and pulleys, and these again with his stove door, so that when the machine was wound up and properly adjusted it could, at the precise moment agreed upon, ring a bell, wind up a spool, drop a weight, rattle a chair, slam shut the stove door and open the draft, all in a jiffy and without extra charge. P - has resolved to outdo this arrangement, and is now engaged on a machine to go by electricity, to be connected with a thermometer and regulate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/23/1883 | See Source »

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