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Word: stoves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...careful of that stove-pipe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRISTMAS WARNING. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...Harvard" stove has been replaced by the "Columbia," and now the students can keep comfortable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 11/9/1877 | See Source »

...absurdities. And I am not sure that Harvard pride is not at this moment tending to put a great many Harvard men in a position like that of the silly old Spanish king who preferred to die of asphyxia rather than sacrifice his dignity by moving away from the stove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

...Biler," sort of base-burning stove tipped over. Cylinders, like teapots. Driving-wheels about the size of the largest felt hat you would see in the College Yard. No cab; Bill "straddles" the rear of the "biler." No smoke stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOUTHERN LIGHTNING EXPRESS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...then been instituted. It seems to us now as if no such exciting event as a battle could have transpired near the College without the students' having a finger in the pie; our only wonder is that the undergraduates did not march to Concord by classes, wearing battered stove-pipes and gowns turned inside out But there was probably no time for the manufacture of the requisite transparencies; and we must remember that the Harvard Drill Corps had not then been organized. It is also very probable that many of the students had Tory sympathies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORIC CAMBRIDGE. | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

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