Word: heath
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...inquiry we were not warranted in making. It seems that one of these machines, on a journey to Lynn, quietly dropped to pieces in the middle of the road. We need not say that no such catastrophe need be feared from the excellent vehicles of which Messrs. Cunningham, Heath, & Co. are the agents...
Oxford University, Brazenose College, February 15. - 100 yards, C. Trepplin, 11 1/5 sec.; broad jump, A. T. Heath, 19 ft. 10 in.; mile-handicap, J. Lang (scratch), 5 min. 3 sec.; mile-walk, A. C. King...
Messrs. Cunningham and Heath, Pearl Street, have a splendid assortment of the most improved English bicycles, and they offer rare chances of learning to ride the vehicle in a large room used for that purpose only. Their room is a capital place of exercise also for those who think of entering into the bicycling club or races...
...British troops were ordered to Cambridge after the surrender of Burgoyne, October, 1777, General Heath asked the Corporation for the use of the College buildings, but as that body was rather unwilling to comply, offering only the use of one house, he sent them a peremptory order to dismiss the students, which was done. The soldiers, however, used only the building first offered, and the students returned after a vacation of two or three months...
...attacked the present arrangements so vigorously that a royal commission was appointed, a short time ago, to examine the condition of the Universities, and recommend whatever changes they might deem advisable. Surely, if those customs which have existed almost from time immemorial, fail when they are on their native heath, they cannot but do likewise if transplanted to a new soil. It must seem strange to a disinterested person that a dying system should be the subject of study; such a person would certainly say that the object of the President's visit might better have been termed the study...