Word: footings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...arrangement for measuring a runner's reaction time down to the thousandth of a second which has been contrived in the Yale Laboratory. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner which thread breaks an electric contact the moment the runner starts. Each of these electric contacts makes a spark on a smoked cylinder in such a way that the time which has elapsed between the first contact and the second can be measured...
...very closely contested. Bigelow was said before the running to be in poor condition and the result justified this statement, for he was unplaced in the finals. Prado was also beaten in his preliminary heat. Redpath showed up in fine form and succeeded in beating Gonterman by about a foot after a hard struggle...
...director of the Lick Observatory has received a telegram which announces that the Hon. Edwin Crossley, lately Member of Parliament for Halifax, England, proposes to present to the Lick Observatory his great three foot reflecting telescope, with its dome and all its apparatus complete. Mr. Crossley, himself an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, makes no conditions to his gift, except that his telescope when set up at Mt. Hamilton shall be called the Crossley Reflector and that the expenses of transporting the instrument and dome from England to California shall be borne by Americans...
...left his home in Northampton on Monday, intending to take a long walk on Mt. Tom; but as he had not returned Tuesday night, much anxiety was felt for his safety, and several searching parties were organized. Wednesday morning Seelye's body was found dead at the foot of a steep cliff over which he had apparently fallen. An examination showed that the skull was fractured at the base of the brain, causing instant death...
...Week: Foot Ball Again; Revival of Lacrosse; An Earnest Prayer; The Depravity of Journalism...