Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dana is inclined to get down on one knee in stopping grounders, instead of keeping his heels together. His throwing and sliding, which have been unsatisfactory, are now improving some. In batting he must break himself of the habit of pulling away from the plate...
...University Museum, has been discontinued, and will not be resumed until Professor Goodale returns from his vacation. The work, thus far largely experimental, has proved entirely satisfactory. There was a possibility that the weight of the larger models, five to eight pounds, would cause the plaster mounts to break, when stood upright in the cases, but sufficient time has now elapsed to allow for any such accident, and none of the plaster casts show any signs of weakness...
...third act, the conspirators, disguised as mountebanks, have reached the borders of the kingdom. They are busy practicing their assumed craft, when the country-folk break in upon them and clamour for a performance. The Dynamiters comply to the best of their ability. During the performance, Della Croca, as a reporter, enters and discovers his daughter with the conspirators. At a signal from him, the police rush in, closely followed by the king and the populace. Trivia is recovered by her father, and the identity of the supposed king is made clear, to the dismay of the Dynamiters, who themselves...
...undergraduate life. But in the years from 1850 to 1880, the classes had been increasing in size, until it became no longer possible for a man to be acquainted with all his classmates. At the same time another cause, the growth of the elective system, combined with this to break down all class distinctions. Not only were the classes too large to have any unity, but the destruction of all scholastic barriers between the classes struck a blow at the system on which the class societies were based. The direct outcome of this was the formation of a number...
...horizon. The distinguishing points are that it is very bright and is almost exactly in the centre of a triangle of three other stars. More specifically--following along that part of the Fence running from the Co-operative to Massachusetts--if one stands by the first post after the break at about 10 p. m., the star will appear just little to the left of the steeple of the Unitarian church, about half way up the super-structure of the steeple...