Word: rod
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...start measured four feet above the floor. Bachelder did not appear. H. L. Clark jumped with the most grace. Up went the bar till it reached 2 feet 2 1-2 inches, when, after three trials, Fogg was unable to clear the bar. At the next raise of the rod to 5 feet 4 inches, D. C. Clark failed. H. L. Clark made a record of 5 feet 6 and failed at 5 feet 7 1-4 inches. Atkinson won with 5 feet 7 1-4 to his credit...
...either boat shall be disabled by any bona fide accident the start shall be taken over again. The following is the substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine by five inches on a metal rod eighteen inches high, the rod to be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance from the stem equal to half the difference in the lengths of the boats...
...starting line shall be moved down from the present starting line the distance of sixty (60) feet toward the finish line, and shall be at right angles to the central line of buoys. Each boat shall be provided with a metal staff or rod eighteen (18) inches high, carrying a flag measuring nine (9) by five (5) inches, of the color of its university. Such rod shall be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance forward from the centre of said boat equal to half the length of the shorter...
This, then, is the question of the hour - athlete or aesthete? muscle or art? bread and butter or daisies? Are we to dine upon sun-flowers cooked with cat-tails, and be invited to sup upon golden rod and dandelions, with a lily or two to complete the inspiration? Are English beef and ale to be consigned to oblivion? Must everybody become wizen and waxen...
...afternoon, and while standing on the main street put a cap on his gun, which, as he supposed, was unloaded. By some unexplained means the gun was discharged in his hands and the whole charge lodged in the back of Howe who was walking by at less than a rod's distance. The injuries inflicted were so severe that he died in about three hours. Howe was a fine scholar, a true Christian, and an only son, and his death will be keenly felt by every one who knew...