Word: stove
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College Hall being in frightful shape, the undergraduates visited that place of worship by night and ripped it asunder. None was disciplined, it being hinted that the President and trustees were secretly delighted. But a new chapel arose, "without a chimney and never profaned by a stove...
...moment later he saw that it was no small boat, but a submarine. The steamer quivered. She had run on the port side of the submarine just forward of the conning tower and had stove a deep hole into the undersea ship...
...Pittsburgh, 30 years ago, a strapping battler named James McCoy stood up to John L. Sullivan and endured, for a few rounds, the rataplan of fists as hard and heavy as stove-lids. John L. Sullivan is dead. Battler McCoy is an old man. Last week he was shuffling home from work through a lonely park when he was set upon by three weasel-faced fellows-men who, in soggy swaddling-clothes, were mewing for their mothers when McCoy was trading cuffs with the hardest hitter who ever put on a glove-thin rogues whom, in the days...
...long, supported on the ground by an immense undercarriage fitted with 44 by 10 in. tires, supported in the air by wings spanning 60 ft. There will be cabin accommodations (including berths) for six passengers, pilot, mechanic, cook. Features are electric lighting, heating from the engine exhausts, and electric stove and refrigerator system in the cook's galley, typewriter, writing desk...
...weather. In extreme cases, where a cool retreat in which to study is imperative, the harassed undergraduate may take a tip from the Irish ditch digger's wife, who replied, when taxed by her husband for not preparing a more elaborate supper: "What! Me slave over a hot stove and you working in your nice cool sewer...