Word: wired
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sale. Bed-room set, consisting of Ash bureau, washstand, 2 chairs and iron bedstead with wire mattrass. Apply at Samuel Tuft's, furniture mover, Lyceum Hall...
...very obnoxious one. It would be quite possible to erect at the back of some courts stop-nets, which would remove all necessity of hiring "shacks." The nets may be obtained at a very cheap rate in any fishing town. Perhaps, however, it would be better to put up wire netting which would last longer, and in the long run be more satisfactory. The posts need not be very expensive, and could be permanent. This plan would save much money to college men, and is worthy of serious consideration by the managers of the Tennis Association...
...alarm of fire from box 78 at 10.50 last night brought more than half the men in college to Fresh Pond. Those who took the two mile run over fields, fences, ditches, and barbed wire, were well repaid for their trouble by one of the grandest sights that has been seen around Cambridge for a long time. For over an hour four large ice houses were a mass of flames. There was no ice in the buildings, but there was a quantity of sawdust which added to the brilliancy of the conflagration...
...testing machines have arrived at the Scientific School. One tests the compressibility of cement and the other the strength of wire, to the extent of 60,000 lbs. They are very delicate in construction and extremely accurate. The Scientific School has shown commendable enterprise in purchasing the machines, and seems to be making a decided improvement in every direction this year...
...formed by a looped wire terminating in an indicative point, upon which rests a heavy weight, the whole being suspended from a firm support. This, however, has not the advantage of such great delicacy as the mercury cup and is used in the more transient stations of the various surveys...