Word: window
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...action of the plaintiff in the case of Strout versus the seven Bowdoin students, now on trial before the Supreme Court of Maine, seems perfectly justifiable and commendable. On the 25th of October last young Strout stood at the window of his room on the second floor of Appleton Hall. A piece of coal weighing one pound was thrown through the glass, striking him in the eye, causing a serious wound. A few minutes after the defendants entered the room on a hazing expedition, for the purpose of seizing some cider supposed to be in the possession of the freshman...
Benjamin's father kept a store in Saug Centre - I was fully persuaded of that, and I almost knew what he kept. I could almost see the signs pasted in the window on large sheets of coarse, brown paper, "Our Five-Cent Cigar can't be beat. Try it." "A large supply of Dupee's Sugar-Cured Hams just in." "Try our new Self-Adjusting Mouse Inducer; every housekeeper should have...
Then there were little boxes in the window with odd labels, such as "Peerless Corn Salve;" "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator; buy it, try it, and be no longer annoyed with cockroaches in your kitchen;" "Patent Labor-Saving Cleaning Powder," with the face of a female with abundant hair reflected in a table-spoon, and the like...
...opens only into the sitting-room. Had he been sleeping in a room on this plan, he could not have escaped by the door, for when he was roused, his sitting-room was all in flames. But an active man, it may be said, can surely escape by the window. So he may, unless it should be the case that his window is almost as strongly barred as those of a goal. Before the gratings with which the lower rooms of our colleges are fortified had been broken-down from without, the poor fellow within might be in as miserable...
...Garfield memorial window is nearly completed, and will be set in its place in the chapel during commencement week, at which time our ex-president, Dr. Hopkins, will deliver an eulogy on the dead President...