Word: inch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president of the University of Southern California has written to Mr. A. Clark of Cambridgeport for information as to a 40-inch telescope, and intimating that an order would be given for one of that size...
...afternoon, the second field meeting was held, in which three school records were broken. The events and winners were: Throwing the hammer, won by J. M. Fiske. Distance 78 ft. 10 in.; second, J. McFerridy, 73 ft. 10 in.; third, J. S. Black, 72 feet 11 1-2 inches-all breaking the record. Senior half-mile run for the Gardiner challenge cup, won by M. K. Quordon; time 2.14 4-5. Senior running high jump, won by H. W. Thornton, 5 ft. 1-4 inch. Junior 100 yards' dash, won by Swane, jr.; time, 10.3-5, breaking the record. Standing...
TUG-OF-WAR.The tug-of-war contests were very close and Harvard's victory was a hard-earned one. Harvard pulled Princeton 10 inches and Columbia one-half inch. Yale pulled Swarthmore two inches. In the final heat Harvard pulled Yale three-quarters of an inch...
LOST.- A note-book, 8 inches long, 5 1-2 inches wide, 1 inch thick. 4 Divinity Avenue...
...between '88 and '89 was the last event of the meeting. The victory for '88 was almost a foregone conclusion. In spite of this fact, however, the '89 team pulled very pluckily. The senior team got the drop by one quarter of an inch, and soon pulled away an inch or so more. Balch caught Perry as he came down to heave and the ribbon was six inches on the '88 side. Perry, by skillful handling of the rope and by the plucky work of the team, succeeded in getting back all but an inch. The '88 team, however, pulled...