Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first half describes the appearance in the court of King Arthur, at Yuletide, of a stalwart knight all clad in green, who challenges the assembled knights to a strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again...
...carry the crew through the season, and although the full sum has not yet been subscribed, assurances have been received from the alumni that they will guarantee the necessary amount to keep the crew on the water. The loss of the eight to Pennsylvania would have been a severe blow to athletics there. For the first time in many years the crew is in the main composed of tried and experienced men, and the prospects for a successful season were never brighter than at present...
Colonel Winslow believes that the bat should be grasped by the right hand as though the bat was to be swung by that hand alone. The left hand is merely to direct, while all the force of the blow should come from the right hand. The first principle of this system is that there shall be no swinging of the bat. The arms must be straightened at the same instant the step forward to meet the ball is taken. The ball ought to be met in front of the base and the bat should always be parallel to the ground...
...decision of the Corporation last summer that seventy acres of the Bussey Farm should be transferred to the Arnold Arboretum was a severe blow to the Agricultural Department. Not only was the farm deprived by the act of all the upland which is suitable for tests and experiments but a not inconsiderable source of income to the department...
Geological Conference. Papers: Geology of Sequatchee Valley, Tenn., Mr. R. E. Dodge; Review of Blow's "The Geology and Ore-Deposits of Iron Hill, Leadville, Colo.," Mr. J. E. Woodman; Review of Spurr's "The Mesabi Iron-Bearing Rocks," Mr. H. L. Smyth. Geological Laboratory...