Word: rest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...forms of apparatus. This new invention which is a good deal like a sliding rowing seat in appearance, is intended to impel boats, carriages and bicycles by means of arm and leg power. The operator sits on a sliding seat, puts his feet in a sliding boot rest, and grasps a lever in each hand. With a simultaneous use of both legs and body he can send the machine ahead at a great rate of speed, with little expenditure of force. The machine can be used by local muscles or by all at once, and is thus a better developer...
...extend it. In the middle ages through the growth in the power of the clergy the church lost its old apostolic character of a force working with and through men in all their daily work, and came to be regarded as a spiritual hierarchy above and apart from the rest of society. The true Church of Christ is more democratic and practical than this. It is the society not merely of priests and prelates but also of men and women of every rank who in their own work in in the world are trying to advance Christ's kingdom...
...even in this the reliable team play of the Yale eleven gave him the interference which made it possible. At another time Coy knocked down a pass from one Harvard player to another and ran forty yards for a touchdown, but he also received valuable aid from the rest of the team. No man on the Yale team played brilliantly, but every one took an equal share in every play and thus concentrated the full strength of the eleven...
MERIDEN, CONN., Nov. 22, 1900. -- The team arrived here at 1 o'clock and went at once to the Winthrop House. Luncheon was over by 2, and the men were given an hour's rest before dressing for practice. Special cars took them to Hanover Park, the professional league baseball field, where a gridiron had been laid out. The ground was in good condition and the weather was clear and mild...
...brought the ball back to the thirty yard line when 1904 secured it. Their kick was blocked and a Sophomore got the ball. A series of line-plays carried the ball to the five yard line when Switzer was sent over for a touchdown. Knowlton missed the goal. The rest of the half was spent mostly in exchanges of punts. The game ended with the ball in 1903's possession on her own thirty-five yard line...