Word: rod
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the first ten strokes, either boat is disabled by any bona fide accident. Owing to the unequal length of the boats, the manner of starting the crews, was the cause of much controversy several years ago. Article XIX settles the question definitely. A flag supported by a metal rod is fixed in the stern of the shorter boat, and another on the longer boat, at a distance forward from the center of that boat, equal to one half the length of the shorter boat. The two crews are started even and timed at the finish by these flags...
...HARRISON.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. To wind up the spring matches, a "merchandise shoot" will be held at the grounds on Friday afternoon, May 28. The prizes will be as follows: 1 gun case, 1 cartridge bag, 1 cleaning rod, 1 set of loading tools, 4 1-4 lb. can of powder, and 200 paper shells. The winners will be determined by the best aggregate scores in these events; 10 straightaway, 10 five angles, 5 pairs (doubles) all clay pigeons. Practice after the regular shoot. Cars leave every half hour...
...efforts to the contrary. Notwithstanding this, the innocent should not be made to pay the penalty due the guilty. At least there should be formulated a set of rules governing the action of the bursar that the students who are compelled to feel the weight of the financial rod might know by what regulations they are pressed to the wall. The complaints which have reached us have come from angry hearts and seething brains. While we can easily (far too easily) appreciate the feelings of these men we would counsel that the citadel of their enemy be attacked...
...entered the next room, and here something met our gaze which very much puzzled us. It was a large cylindrical tin box, over which hung, suspended by an iron rod connected with the shaft over head, a huge steel blade. We gazed upon it with horror; it carried us back to the days of the French Revolution and the guillotine. We wondered if it might not be an instrument which in the middle ages had been used connected in some way with the Spanish Inquisition. At this point we were informed by our guide, who noticed our perplexity that this...
...rowing machine has been placed in the gymnasium at Cornell. There are no springs, weights or cylinders used in the construction of the machine. The principle is simply that of friction. An iron rod bent in the shape of an are of a circle is attached to the end of the lever, and fits into grooves in a couple of blocks at the end of the arm. When the oar is turned as when pulling against the water the rod is pressed against the sides of the blocks giving friction enough to make the stroke about as hard as when...