Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...telegram received from Poughkeepsie at the Crimson office last evening the crews were reported to have arrived in good shape at 1.30 p. m., coxswain Huidekoper having joined them in New York...
...play Yale ninety-eight on Holmes Field next Friday is practising every day with the College nine and is playing very good ball. The men have been playing as much as possible in the position they will have in the game and the team play is getting into good shape. Hereafter they will practise together as a nine and by Friday ought to be ready for the game. The positions as at present determined upon will be: Cozzens p., Brown c., Foster 1b, Vincent 2b, Holt s. s., McVey 3b, Sterling l. f., Manning c. f., Davis (captain...
...condition of the club is very properous this spring. There are one hundred and fifty members, as opposed to thirty-nine last year, and, though improvements have been made in the floats and house, the treasury is still in good shape. Much credit is due to Mr. W. S. Youngman and his associates for this change...
...astronomical work every photographic plate must be tested for sensitiveness. Mr. Ring, assistant at the Observatory, has found the shape which an aperture must have in order to give a shaded area on each plate that will vary in intensity in arithmetical ratio. By means of a narrow strip on each plate, varying from a very light shade to one of considerable darkness, the magnitude of the stars photographed may be measured with accuracy...
...found them rowing in very good shape, far better, indeed, than I had expected. They showed more confidence and greater steadiness, which proved to my mind that they had been carefully thinking out for themselves what they had been learning in the fall, and had been constantly endeavoring to apply these lessons under the guidance of skilful instructors. To put it in a different way: whereas in the fall they had always to be thinking, with the recurrence of every stroke, of the various motions that they had to get through, as of something more or less strange or unaccustomed...