Word: top
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...burning of Stoughton last Monday, occurring as it did in the daytime, and being confined almost wholly to the top story of the building, proved less disastrous than might have been expected. But if the fire had broken out on the ground-floor during the night, great loss of property, and perhaps of life, would have been inevitable. The ladders, which figured so prominently in the Bursar's letter to the Advertiser last year, and which he stated could be put in use in less than five minutes, were found to be so carefully strapped down that it was more...
...hear his heart go thumpety-thump against his ribs. It's a sad day for this slender twig of the Van Rasselas stock. At last, after miles of streets and fields (so it seemed to Ferdy), they come to a wire fence with jagged points along the top, about three feet high. Ferdy tries to jump it, but his strength gives out and he sits on the top wire; the points tear his knickerbockers and pierce his epidermis, and Ferdy concludes it hurts much more than when he sat on a bent...
...Junior sat in the top of Weld...
...ceiling, while as many nickel-plated, portable lamps are distributed - throughout the car. If necessity requires, movable slides in the ceiling can be opened, giving plenty of air to each and every occupant of the car." When the eighteen nickel-plated lamps are all going at once, the top of the car must present the appearance of being upholstered with buttons when the unhappy artists stretch their heads out of their respective panels...
...between University Hall and Quincy Street, so that these two buildings will form, with Appleton Chapel and Gore Hall, a small quadrangle. The base dimensions of the building will be 177 feet in length by 75 in width, while 50 feet is the height from the ground to the top cornice, above which the roof rises 30 feet more. The material to be used in building will be brick; each brick being 12 X 4 X 2 5/16 inches, manufactured especially for this building. The bricks out of which the carved work that will ornament the exterior of the building...