Word: topped
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...newly varnished wainscoating with such volumes of smoke that it was impossible to save anything in the rooms on the upper stoies. With but one exception, J. B. Henney, Jr., 1901, of Hartford, Conn., no one was caught in the building. Henney who rooms in number 38 on the top story was reading in his room when he smelt smoke, and on going into the entry was nearly stifled by the dense cloud which was rolling up from the floor below. He attempted to go down the wooden ladder in the air shaft but finding it on fire started down...
...first whist match for the Crosby Trophy, top score, five plus, was made by Kelly and Halle, Butts and Stevens second with a score of four plus...
...part of the plan, consisting of the secret ballot system of election, the committee considers this portion also to offer a desirable improvement. Certain practical difficulties have, however, suggested themselves at this point. The chief of these is, that no man who is defeated as a candidate at the top of the ticket can be nominated for a place lower down, since no man can be nominated for more than one place...
...communications show this morning, the chief difficulty is to provide for men who may be defeated as candidates at the top of the ticket. The plan proposed of holding the committee elections over a day is not altogether satisfactory. It is, to begin with, rather cumbrous, and in addition it is but a half-way measure, as so many offices would still remain to be filled simultaneously. It is quite conceivable, for instance, that the same individual might be nominated for a marshalship and for a literary office, or as chorister. It is to be hoped that a better solution...
JUST received two hundred pairs of men's English Tan, heavy winter shoes. These shoes have bellows tongues to top, heavy double sole and made on latest English last. Our price is only $6.00 and the same stock is in them as we use in our $9.00 and $10.00 custom shoe. Positively the finest shoe ever got out at any such price. See them in the window...