Word: washing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...steamer and deposited them in the boathouse, we proceeded to take possession of our rooms, or rather alcoves, for they are little more. Each alcove is provided with a bed, a hard mattress, an exceedingly hard pillow, and a sort of a rough shelf, which serves as a wash stand. The walls are decorated to a certain extent with the statistics of former races, the autographs of former oarsmen, and sarcastic observations from unknown visitors, very partial to our adversaries and uncomplimentary to ourselves...
...platform should be built as a wharf, the stringers, somers and piles mortised, tenoned, and bolted together, and not simply resting on piles, as was the case here. The piles for such a structure should be driven into and down to hard pan, and, where exposed to the tide wash, should be braced and bolted together...
...chop. "Now, Mr. Jones," he would say, "suppose you take the egg and I'll take the chop ; or do you take the chop and I will take the egg." The immense breakfast feeds of the university, which required a good deal of fluid to wash them down, were very properly rebuked by the sumptuary example of this worthy tutor.-London Society...
...whole drift has been to not trying to wash politics because-they were so dirty...
...meeting of the directors of Memorial Hall yesterday it was voted to place six stationary wash stands with towels, etc., for the use of the students, in the basement of Memorial...