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...still. Sometimes I think it is even worse now than was the case 50 years ago. I refer to such things as leaving wagons and farm machinery out in the fields or outside the barn or shed in all kinds of weather, permitting window panes to be missing, doors and gates off the hinges, fences out of order, piles of wood, lumber and stones around the buildings where they ought not to be; stumps and stones in a tillable field when they might be removed; piles of rubbish around the place that ought to be burned if no value...
...group in the college may enter teams in the informal league. Starting Monday, a notice will be posted in Leavitt and Peirce's window to inform those who are interested in the ice conditions on Soldier's Field rinks. On the days when it is possible to play, anyone desiring to do so may go out to the rinks where the coach in charge will see that he gets an opportunity to play. When good ice can be assured, regular scheduled games will be played...
...little chapel in the north transept burled deep among the shadows and the silence. It was light enough to read the bronze tablet: "This chapel was restored in 1907 in memory, of John Harvard by the sons and friends of Harvard University." and, opposite, another tablet, saying that the window was given by Joseph Choate, Harvard, 1862: American Ambassador in London...
...death of King Edward VI (only son of Henry VIII of England) was concealed for two days, and the dead sovereign youth was actually propped up for a few hours at a window of his palace. The reason: "so that the people may see that he is still alive...
...order of Inventor Hartman's "diving bell" which has penetrated thousands of feet deeper than any live man ever went in the ocean and came back to tell about it (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925). The tank is fitted with oxygen pumps and other breathing apparatus and a glass window capable of withstanding many tons of pressure to the square inch. For illumination he planned to depend entirely, at first, upon the abysmal brilliance of deep sea creatures...