Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...features of the game were a pretty double play by Lowell and Quigley, a running overhead catch by Phelan and Gillmore's three-baser...
...waste paper, and for a few minutes made a dense smoke, with considerable flame. Fortunately there was a recitation being held at the time on the same floor, for had not some of the students perceived the smoke, the fire would doubtless have gone to the attic immediately overhead, thereby causing considerable damage. As it was, the fire was extinguished with a few pails of water. A needless alarm was sent in, and the entrance of the engines to the yard caused great excitement for the time being...
...conversant with details, whatever branch of electricity they might afterwards follow. Then he showed a number of specifications for lighting contracts and carefully went through these commenting on the principal points; giving the benefit of his experience in the different kinds of dynamos, lamps, fuses, wires, meters, etc. The overhead system for street lighting is not per se any more dangerous than the underground, but companies have been so pressed with work that they have to employ ignorant and careless men. The subway system will eventually be used because it is more sightly. The alternating current has never really been...