Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SALE.- A 58 inch Rudge light roadster. Almost new. Terms easy. Apply to 23 Holyoke House...
...SALE.- A 58-inch Rudge light roadster, almost new. Terms easy. Apply to 23 Holyoke House...
...SALE.- A 58-inch Rudge light roadster, almost new. Terms easy. Apply to 23 Holyoke House...
...have been assiduously at work under Mr. Lathrop's guidance, practising running, jumping, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, etc. The track has not been in good condition, so that no very good records have been made. A top dressing of loam and cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes Field was formerly a peat bog, which accounts for its extreme slowness...
Eighty-eight won the drop by a fraction of an inch, but did not hold it long, and at the end of two minutes the ribbon, was exactly in the middle. Both sides lay on the rope for the next minute, and each anchor was laying for the other in order to catch him in case he should start to heave. During the fifth minute, Balch took in rope, and by a succession of powerful heaves brought the ribbon one and a half inches over to his side, where it remained until time was called. The victorious team was carried...