Word: barring
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that J. C. Faulkner, '86, will not enter the horizontal bar competition at the coming winter meetings...
...this event a minimum leap was set, and all those failing to cover this distance lost their chance to compete in the other events, which reduced the great number of contestants. The Greeks never leaped without weights, and used two sorts, first the dumbbell, which had a curved bar between the round ends, and of which the dumbbell in use at the present day is an imitation; second, the half of a flattened disk, with an orifice on the curved side for the hand; these they threw behind them when in mid-air, and this gave them additional impetus...
There will be a gymnastic contest for the amateur championship of America in New York on Feb. 19, 1885, in the following events: horizontal bar, parallel bars, flying rings, and club swinging...
...teachable, will be ignorant. What is the effect of living under a rigid constitution ? In America the constitution is found in every house and taught in every school, and can be read aloud in seventeen minutes. The consequence of this is that politics tend to become legal, and the Bar has far more importance than in England, where Parliament is omnipotent. Americans often say that their whole political history has been a struggle of strict as against loose constructionists. It is only fair to say that the American constitution works well, because it was imposed on a people educated...
...fill the soul of a dime museum propritor with envy. As, for instance, a cast of the skull of the horned woman, who had ragged pieces of horns six inches long protruding from her forehead, and the skull of a man who was cured after having an iron tamping bar pass through his head. Such are few of the wonders of the museum...