Word: pointed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...informal shoot of the Rifle and Revolver Club on Saturday, C. H. Taylor 1900, scored 190 points out of a possible 200, in twenty consecutive shots. This score comes within one point of the best known record for that number of shots with a pistol, and is especially creditable as Taylor made the last ten shots with a 44 calibre revolver...
...Corbin describes vividly and from the American point of view, life at Winchester, Eton, Rugby, and some of the other great schools. He indicates the points of difference between the English public schools and the American preparatory schools, and points out clearly those characteristics of the English public schools that have impressed their individuality upon the leaders in English literary and public life. "School-boy Life in England" is handsomely illustrated. This is the second book that Mr. Corbin has published since his graduation...
With regard to what is called an American Henley, I note that various opinions and declarations have been attributed to me, all more or less incorrectly. One of this morning's Boston papers quotes me as having made certain remarks on this point. I never made them. Indeed I have not been interviewed with reference to this subject since I landed, early in November...
...decided effort is being made by a number of prominent Cambridge citizens to induce the West End Railroad to provide better accommodations for its passengers at the Harvard square transfer station. Although more passengers are transferred there daily than at almost any other point in the West End system, only one small room has been provided; and the constant overflow of passengers into the street which necessarily results is alike an inconvenience to passengers and a disturbance to traffic...
...inclose a straight wire in a glass tube and exhaust the air within, and then send a discharge of high electromotive force through the wire, the whole space of the tube will be brilliantly luminous. It looks as if the effect of the x-rays were produced from every point of the wire although it was formerly supposed that a discharge was necessary to produce this effect. The new ray, however, could probably not be used for the same purposes in taking photographs...