Word: blade
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advantages for solitude of a corner. "A Forgotten Episode," is a story of Indian wrongs by Americans fifty years ago known to history as the "Spoliation of the Cherokees." Over the Teacups is as bright as ever but somewhat more sharp. Dr. Holmes cannot resist swinging his Damascus blade over literary aspirants who have nothing but aspiration. The three long stories roll on serenely, and critical, semicritical, and uncritical treatment of Tennyson, Lucy Laroom and Mrs. Cheney's Miss Alcott with The Contributor's club complete the number...
...satisfactory. The oars were horribly clumsy, the volume of water to be moved was too great and the current did not move with any freedom, nor did the rowing offer any resemblance to boating. The clumsiness of the oars was made by cutting a large hole in the blade and tacking upon the remaining portions thick strips of wood. The water going through the hole made the oar feel dead, while the strips of wood on the blades made them very heavy. There was a tendency in all of the oars to sink in the water so that a great...
Each contestant must provide his own foils and duelling-sword-the regulation No. 5 blade must be used. The diameter of the hilt of the duellingsword must not exceed five inches. All button points must be small...