Word: ring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lacrosse Team played its first game yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field, defeating the Boston Lacrosse Team by a score of 6 to 1. The Boston team showed plainly its lack of training, and the playing was nearly all near the Boston goal. Of the new men, H. C. Ring '98, W. Abbe '98, and J. Staab, L. S., did the best work...
Robert W. Edgren, of the University of California, has again beaten the world hammer throwing record. From the regulation seven-foot ring he hurled a 16-pound hammer 148 feet 5 inches a few days ago. This is more than three feet farther than the world's record and a foot farther than Edgren's previous best trial throw, which was discredited by Mitchell, late of the New York Athletic Club...
WORCESTER, March 12.- All four of the Harvard entries won places at the Holy Cross indoor games held at the Worcester Skating Ring tonight. Newell's win in the 100 yards run in 2.31 4/5 was the best performance of the evening. The other winners were: W. J. Denholm '97, first in the 40 yards dash in 4 3/5s.; D. Grant '99, first in the mile handicap; and W. C. Burton '99, second in the quarter mile novice...
...tube is that the sides or walls of the lamp are made of sheet aluminum 1/10 in. thickness; the base of the lamp is made of solid glass, practically a plug fitted into the base of the aluminum cone with paster-of-Paris, and made air tight. A metallic ring passes around the base of the cone and holds the sides of the cone firmly to the glass bottom. Through a point a little to the side of the centre of the glass base, passes the cathode pole into the lamp, and at the end of this is fastened...
...wooden box that had been surrounded by a pasteboard box. The next picture was of a turkey's wing which showed the bones and a bullet which had been shot into it. The third picture was again of a turkey's wing with three shots in it, and a ring taken by a to and fro current which is the professor's way of finding out the distance of the object from the surface. The last picture was one of a living human hand taken in Hamburg, Germany. It is the best picture ever taken and was exposed an hour...