Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GLASSES adjusted to any face firmly and neatly, so that they will not vibrate or drop off during any exercise. Our patent eye glass holds more firmly than spectacles. Large variety of patent frames. The fitting of glasses for tennis, base-ball, bicycle riding and all sports a specialty. Sanborn & Don ovan, Opticians, 3 Winter St. (one flight), Boston...
...GLASSES adjusted to any face firmly and neatly, so that they will not vibrate or drop off during any exercise. Our patent eye glass holds more firmly than spectacles. Large variety of patent frames. The fitting of glasses for tennis, base-ball, bicycle riding and all sports a specialty. Sanborn & Don ovan, Opticians, 3 Winter St. (one flight), Boston...
...Ball Association. Two slight changes were made in the rules. The opposing centre rush cannot touch the ball until it is put in motion. By the insertion of the words "or a place kick," rule 32 is made to read as follows: "A kick-out must be either a drop-kick, or a place-kick." After some other unimportant business, the convention adjourned until early next fall, when a meeting will be held to arrange the dates for the matches...
...large audiency, on the subject of "First aid in cases of fractures, dislocating, and bandaging." The patient suffers as much in accidents from the sympathy and officiousness of the by-standers, as he does from the injury itself. We should do too little rather than too much. If we drop a watch, we take it to the watch-maker for repair, and to him alone. So in case of bodily injuries, we should rely on the surgeon alone...
...play as well as several of the nines which contested for the CRIMSON cups last year. Most of the fielders treat a game of base ball as a huge joke, and during a game indulge in such little pleasantries as guying each other about errors. The sooner they drop this style of play the better for the class and for the men themselves. They fail to play together, and a couple of hits by their opponents totally demoralize the team. They play without snap and as if nothing depended on their improvement. They strike at a ball, with...