Word: outer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simple protection against fire is to put a horizontal cut-off in the hollow walls between the stories. This will cause the fire to enter the room, where it can be seen and attended to. If this simple expedient should be generally tried, and the floors carried to the outer walls, probably at least twenty-five per cent. of the losses now experienced would be done away with...
...Skin and its Functions - The Importance of the Bath," was the subject of Dr. Sargent's lecture yesterday. The lecturer first described in detail the different layers of the skin and the important work performed by each. The outer part of the skin exerts a protective force, doing the double duty, by its power as a non-conductor, of keeping out the cold and preserving the vital heat in the body. Below the protective layer comes the glandular or secretive tissue, under which lies the vascular, and farthest from the surface, the nervous fibre...
...will venture to assert that no one who had endured the rigors of minus zero degrees in e. g. Weld, would ever venture to raise such objections if steam were to be introduced into our buildings. On the question of the desirability of steam-heat for dwellings in the outer world, there is almost no doubt at all. Steam is fast coming to supercede all other methods of heating; and, if a practically scientific method of steam-heating were adopted for Harvard's dormitories, there need be no occurrence of the disagreeable symptoms of leakage and noise. Moreover, the pleasant...
...Union, and Canada and Nova Scotia outside. But whether they come from Wyoming or Texas, California or Florida, they are as like as peas when they march to church in procession on Sundays, in their sealskins and great Gainsborough hats with flowing plumes. Dame Fashion has regulated the outer woman, and it must be Mother Nature who has taken care that the nobler part shall not vary too much from the accepted standard for young maidenhood in the nineteenth century, so much alike and so thoroughly "schoolgirlish" are the daughters she has sent us from east and west, from north...
...canal projects have been brought before Congress : One, to construct a channel from the Hudson along the Harlem river to the outer edge of Randall's Island; the other, to authorize a survey for a ship canal from Toledo to the lower points of Lake Michigan...