Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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More evidence is accumulating against the parties arrested for the Phoenix Park tragedy, the sword blades which the informer, Kavanagh, testified to having seen thrown into the basin of the gas works having been found...
Among other fire-escapes considered was the large canvas bag, which when thrown out reaches by a long incline from the entry to the ground, and through which persons can slide safely out of the burning building. These large bags, however, are very bulky, and could not well be stored in the entry or in any student's room. The most practicable fire-escape seemed to be the ordinary rope, and it is possible that in the end this plan for safety against fire will be adopted. If so, a plain rope will be furnished each student who desires...
...look to the college which offers the best prizes and affords the best opportunities for gaining instruction. But that large class of men which goes to college with other considerations equal to that of acquiring knowledge and culture, also bears in mind what kind of men it will be thrown in with in one college rather than another and decides accordingly. This is no small attraction of English university life; that is to say the intimacy which one enjoys with men of the same general turn of mind, and the possible benefits derived from such intercourse. It gives a certain...
...room No. 8. A large easy chair had caught fire from a cigarette, and after smouldering for an hour or more the flame broke out. The smouldering had not been noticed, and at the time when it was discovered no one was in the room. The chair was thrown out the window, so that no further damage resulted except the burning of a small part of the carpet. The smoke from the burning chair, after it was thrown out behind the building, drew a crowd, who supposed that Holyoke was on fire...
...wrestling in the winter meetings of the H. A. A. no fall will count unless one man is thrown fairly on his back, i.e., two shoulders and one hip, or two hips and one shoulder must strike the ground at the same time...