Word: platformer
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...line of the finish as they could be placed, two stands had been built nearly equal in size. But the one on the western bank quite surpassed its rival in having a band and in being the terminal station of the Harvard Telegraph Co. Here, on a rude platform, built in the crotch of a tree at least thirty feet from the ground, sat Nason, '73, ready for the faintest signal of the start. But the start was not yet. The wiser ones, who had waited for boats to start before, took no part in the general rush...
...times a week for the rest of the year on the "Manly Art of Self-Defence," by Professor W. Hamilton, of England. It was a rare chance to procure scientific knowledge of the subject; and Lister at $20 a dozen lessons was nowhere. The lecture-room had a raised platform at one end, on which the Professor stood, and the walls were adorned with prints of ancient and modern athletes. There were Herr Milo, of Croton, the renowned deadweight lifter; M. Dares and P. Entellus, as they stood in the ring on the 12th of April, 1182 B. C., drawn...
...presence. He has a friend teaching school in this same country town, upon whom he calls. See him when, before he enters in front of the assembled school, he stops and furtively brushes his beaver, and dusts off his boots. Ah! he has the disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses (at home he only needs them for reading), and gaze around the room. You would certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks...