Word: nails
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have means of ascertaining the waves of energy coming from a nail which is but slightly heated. The two carbons of an electric light were then projected on screen and the light coming from the incandescent carbons shown...
...would have a sky-rocketty effect, due to the introduction of the Princeton cheer, while that of '89 would have a lurid background and a leaden finish. McPherson established a good record for himself in the box, but Gallivan's three-bagger in the eighth knocked off a finger-nail and forced him to withdraw. Eighty-nine put in Downer in his place, after some little discussion, and the '88 men nearly knocked the ball to pieces. That eighth inning laid out the sophomores, for '88 got two three-baggers, a two-bagger and two singles...
...consider their first game with Harvard, '89, as the fence game." Our E. C. further remarks with much satire that Yale, '89, only considers it a fence game when victorious. We would beg to state that the Crimson is absolutely correct in its surmise and has hit the nail squarely on the head." - Yale Courant...
...suns rays. The true skin is well supplied with nerves and blood-vessels; and it is fastened to the parts beneath by a layer of connective tissue, which contains scattered through its meshes, in most parts of the body, varying amounts of fat. The hairs and the nails are growths of the epidermis; the lines which you may see on the nails correspond to the elevations on the skin below over which the nail is moulded. The hairs do not project down the skin at a right angle to its surface, but are placed obliquely, so that they incline towards...
...synonymous with drinking a health, for the former took its name from the custom of putting toast, nutmeg and sugar into ale. To drink supernaculum was an ancient custom in England of emptying the cup or glass and then pouring the remaining drop or two upon the finger nail; for what purpose, is not known. "To buzza one," was a term used to a person who hesitated to empty a bottle that was nearly out. "Under the Rose," a term now used for anything said confidentially at a social gathering took its rise from a custom of wearing chaplets...