Word: screen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...enclosure in the basement of the Gymnasium for the winter practice of the Nine is perfect in its appointments. It is separated from the bowling-alleys by a brick wall, raised about four feet from the surface, and a wire screen placed above the wall, which allows the light and air to pass through, but keeps out the ball from the alleys...
...exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
...which is presided over by a different deity of the dining-hall. I sat meekly down, and looked around for my Henry; but my Henry was nowhere to be seen. A hungry man cannot wait. I was becoming anxious, when suddenly my Henry came rushing from behind the screen...
...lecture to be given in the chapel of Christ Church, Cambridge, Tuesday evening, February 13, at 7.45, entitled "The United States Government Expedition to Tasmania to observe the Transit of Venus," to be illustrated by views by John Moran, thrown by a powerful stereopticon upon a large canvas screen. The lecturer will be Mr. Leonard Waldo, Assistant at Harvard College Observatory, who accompanied the expedition as Assistant Astronomer. The lecture will be one of importance to those interested in Astronomy, and yet will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only 400 tickets...
...some extent, take general exercise, and three times a week the pitcher practises pitching; but they can get no practice at all in batting during about five months. At Yale a certain part of the gymnasium is shut off from the rest of the building by a wire screen, and there the candidates for their Nine can take their places as they do on the field and get up their batting as well in doors...