Word: bolting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Like a bolt from the blue comes the announcement that for business reasons Percy D. Haughton has found it necessary to server all official connection with Harvard football. More than even we realize how much confidence the University has placed in Coach Haughton's ability to develop its football teams. Nor has that confidence been misplaced. During the nine years of his career as head coach Haughton has developed his elevens with system and success always an apostle of sportsmanship and sane athletic method. We cherish the hope that circumstances may yet permit Haughton to occupy at least an advisory...
...from the Krag-Jorgensens, the model of 1898, which were supplied by the Government for the use of the Regiment last year, and which the Corps is now using. The barrel is considerably shorter, a fact which changes to a certain extent the balance of the piece. The same bolt action is used in both types, but instead of the side feeding magazine of the Krag-Jorgensen, the clip used in the Springfield are shoved in from the top. The calibre of the new arms is 30-30, and the muzzle velocity is 27,000 feet a second...
...Maurier's tale have imagined the real Trilby to be. Clothed in garments well suited to acentuate her statuesque beauty she moves through the piece, at times merry, and mischievous, at times pitifully sad. And in the scene, where under the influence of Svengali she sings "Sweet Alice Ben Bolt" her voice won the hearts of the audience even as that of Du Maurier's heroine won the hearts of the audience he describes...
Meanwhile the University team deserves all the encouragement and moral support possible. It is facing a difficult situation. It had no sooner recovered from the loss of Captain Ayres and from unfortunate individual injuries, when this last bolt came out of a clear sky. If the team can get along for a few days on good wishes and undergraduate backing, such spirit should be accorded with full heart; and if the team emerges victorious at the end of the season, that team will be counted one of the bravest in the history of Harvard sport...
...Bolt, H. C. Dewey, J. Elliott, S. S. Hanks, W. B. Prescott, A. Richard, J. Simpkins, C. M. Storey...