Word: recoil
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...possible to tell not only the position of the hostile artillery, but also its calibre--the last requiring a practised eye. It is also possible to distinguish in the tremors recorded by the instrument the difference between shocks produced by the fall of projectiles, and those caused by the recoil of the guns. It is through the shock produced by the fall of the projectile that the calibre of the firing battery may be determined...
...view, we confess, American college life seems a hot-house, producing, not gentlemen, but artistes. The majority of men coming to college from elsewhere than the social world of the great cities are pure bourgeois. They have the big virtues and the little, - regard for the truth and virtuous recoil from ponying. They have read nothing but the Requirements for Admission and high-toned books, and scorn all literature but such as "fits them for the work of life." Cards are not only a waste of time, but evil in themselves; and the theatre an abomination...