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Starting off with a gust of brilliancy in the opening session, lapsing almost to the breaking point towards the half, rallying at last in a desperate and effective effort to retrieve victory, the University basketball-team-won out in its struggle with the New Hampshire quintet at Hemenway Gymnasium last night. After 30 minutes of breathless play, with the two teams dead-locked at 23-all, the striving Crimson five pulled ahead and slowly pressed their advantage till the final whistle blew with the score...
...just completed another still more powerful apparatus for the study of electrical force It is capable of producing sparks in air, resembling lightning flashes, of from six to seven feet in length. The discharge creates a sensation as if a window had suddenly been opened letting in a gust of wind, and sparks can be drawn from the brick walls of the room. Sparks closely resembling lightning discharges can be obtained thirty and forty feet in length through glass tubes in which the atmospheric pressure has been reduced to about two pounds and a half to the square inch...
...stormy gust of long-suspended...
...mile, at 11.59; and third, at 12 22 1-2. Dunham finished at 12.30. Webster gave up in the middle of the race. Coombs, who was second at the end of the first mile, lost his position by an accident. In rounding the buoy he was struck by a gust of wind and thrown into the Water. Boats were immediately sent out, however, and he finished the race, coming in about a third of a mile behind Dunham...
...that instant the man we spoke of came, and was passing between me and the old and nearly forgotten well, and strongly I pressed against him and he fell. A howling gust swept the field, and, folded in the darkness of the Shape, I was hurried through the air." The apparition stopped...