Word: across
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice of sliding bases. It is a frame work 14 feet long about 4 feet high, covered with tightly-stretched canvas, which is in turn covered with a piece of carpet. The men rush the length of the cage, and throwing themselves on the machine, shoot headlong across its surface...
...progressive, if one may judge from the changes which have been made. The quiet, staid Advocate has blossomed out with a crimson title-page, and the innovation is a very happy one. The lines around the pages and between the columns have been taken out, and the articles end across the page instead of filling up one whole column and a fraction of the other. The verses are honored with the full width of the page. All these changes have a very pleasing effect, tending to clear the Advocate from those traces of amateurishness which are the concomitants...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- Oliver Byron in "Across the Continent...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- Oliver Byron in "Across the Continent...
HOWARD ATHENAEUM.- "Across the Continent...