Word: cocked
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fastened a platinum disc, at such an angle as to be parallel with the side of the lamp. At the top of the lamp and directly connected to the metallic side, is the anode pole, and at the top of the cone is a glass tube with a cock-stop, so that the air may be exhausted. This glass tube is also fastened in with plaster-of-Paris and bound by a metallic ring. A circular wooden disc is fastened in the inside of the metallic cone, to prevent any collapse of the sides on exhaustion. By this construction...
...SUMICHRAST.NINETY-FIVE.- The following men please be dressed at the gymnasium at 3.30 sharp: Walker, Whittemore, Wads-worth, Sears, Knapp, Floyd, Lambert, Winslow, Cassatt, Hitch, Pierce, Cock-rell, Thompson, Livingood, Phelan, McNear, Cook, Raymond, Kaven, and Peabody. Every man who has not been examined, must be before one o'clock, and every man who cannot be on time must let me know...
Broad jump: F. Frothingham, T. Cock-ran, J. H. Goss. S. M. Hammond, C. B. Pinney, H. B. Lee, C. B. Rice, L. P. Sheldon, C. Wheeler...
...suit was not fortunate, so he returned to London and there became very intimate with Sir Philip Sidney. Chance carried him to Ireland and here he was forced to pass most of his time, away from the London that he loved. Queen Elizabeth granted him a large estate near Cock, but he was never popular there and was eventually driven out. His castle was burned and one his children (for he had married an Irish wife) perished in the flames. His own death followed soon, on January 16, 1599. He was carried to Westminster...
With the score three to two against them Harvard came to the bat in the last of the ninth. Corbett knocked an easy grounder to Steere and went out at first. Cook got a base hit amid great enthusiasm. Wood cock proceeded to give Upton his base on balls, sending Cook to second. Here Highlands came to the bat, and won the most tremendous applause of the Harvard men, with a safe base hit, bring in Cook and tying the score. With the score a tie Hovey hit a long fly to centre making two out. Hallowell...