Word: bit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Marsh in translating a portion of the "Wasps" of Aristophanes is very courageous in his attempts to turn Greek slang of the fifth century B. C. into the modern language of the street. The translator gives us a spicy bit of reading, but it is a question whether he has not gone too far in his desire to be true to his author. We are inclined to think that there is a hint of an anachronism here, but, however that may be, we have no difficulty in understanding Aristophanes through the medium of such a translation...
...Harrison of the Veterinary School has completed some interesting experiments of a new device for controlling refractory horses. The trials were made upon a vicious animal which had the habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small electric battery which he carried in the buggy. The apparatus was so arranged that the driver could give the horse a shock of greater or less intnsity without injury. The trial was an entire success. The horse after two or three shocks became docile...
...watch the ball, and with scarcely an exception, they jump at a man's head in tackling, instead of taking him low. The backs, when they look for a hole in the line-which is not often,-can seldom find one. The men play without a bit of snap or earnestness. They seem to think they can play hard when they choose, and at other times are at liberty to gaze around the field or do whatever else suits them best. This sort of work has lasted quite long enough and the sooner the captain and his men wake...
...effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines convey the folly and the utter hopelessness of the magicians wish to stop the progress of time. The number closes with the charming bit of verse "Vanitas...
...CRIMSON has just received the May number of the Atlantic Monthly. The new issue is remarkable for not containing a single bit of verse. The articles continued from the former number are "The Aspern Papers," by Henry James; "Yone Santo," by E. H. House, and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove," by Charles Egbert Craddock. Mr. Cook concludes here his papers on the marriage celebration with "Reform in the Celebration of Marriage...