Word: crack
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...high hurdles there should be a race well worth seeing with such men entered as Chase the American champion, and Curtis who won this event at the Olympic games. The low hurdle race should also prove exciting with such performers as Bremer, Chase, and Perkins, the Yale crack. This race has been changed from the usual 220 yards to 146 2-3, and the 220 yards flat to one of 150, so that it will not be necessary to open the gates across the track, as this gives many persons a chance to enter without paying. Perhaps the most interesting...
...iron racks and adjustable shelves. The windows looking out into the hall are made of fire-proof glass. The material is a novelty. The metal while in the molten state has been poured over a wire screen, so that if a fire should break out the flames could not crack the glass...
...track athletic team today signed to train the track athletes of the New York Athletic Club the coming summer. Mr. Murphy will take the New York club's candidates in hand about May 20, after he has developed the Yale sprinters for the intercollegiate games. He has developed more crack sprinters than any other American trainer...
ATTENTION STUDENTS. - The Mutual Benefit Company will polish free of charge any patent leather boots beginning to crack. By applying this polish the boots are made water-proof and the leather soft and pliable, preventing all cracking. Students may leave their boots at Mr. Bouchard's, opposite Boylston Hall...
ATTENTION STUDENTS. - The Mutual Benefit Company offer to mend, free of charge, any patent leather boots which are beginning to crack. By addressing P. O. Box 2, Cambridge, a person will call and get your boots, polish and return them free of charge. This polish may also be obtained of Thayer, McNeil & Hodgkins, Temple Place, Boston...