Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soft black hat or chapeau, dark sack coat, white gloves or gauntlets, white trousers, top boots or leggings and will carry a baton. The Chief of Division will be distinguished by a corn color and white sash; division aids by red sashes, which will be worn over the right shoulder and fastened at the left side...
...came from their midst. Their efforts were not successful. The freshmen kept possession of the stick, beating off their opponents again and again. Finally one of the '88 men, holding the cane in his left hand, was making off with it when he felt a hand placed upon his shoulder. Feeling himself attacked, he hit out with his other fist and struck President Barnard in the shoulder; for it was he who, interfering to stop the rush, had laid his hand upon the freshman. Nothing daunted, the president returned the blow in a manner which made the young man have...
This spring the Oxford University crew experimented with a new set of oars, designed by the Rev. E. Warre. These oars after a peculiar fashion and their strangeness consists in their being much broader near the shoulder than at the extreme end of the blade. The advantage claimed for them is that the whole blade takes the water at once, instead of only a small corner of it-as is the case of some men with the oars now in use-also that the whole blade leaves the water at once, thus minimizing the chance of feathering under water...
...fifty of the students were writhing and tumbling about in the agonies of a "canerush" in the great hall of the university, he came out of the chancellor's room, his face beaming with smiles, and holding his eye-glasses in one hand, with the other he patted the shoulder of a brawny sophomore, and exclaimed in his soft, sweet tones, "Why, gentlemen, you mustn't do this! Gentlemen, you must stop this at once!" Tradition says that the sophomore took the professor up in his arms, as tenderly as a baby, carried him back to the chancellor's room...
...striker' has to take the ball quickly and without having time to consider the most judicious play to return it to. The low volley always keeps the ball low, and unless the 'receiver' is there or thereabouts, he can never get at it. A volley from the shoulder invariably sets the ball 'bouncing,' rendering it possible of return (although otherwise well placed) by an active receiver. I should recommend our players to take pains to acquire the low volley. Players on this side distress themselves too much in serving, and often tiring themselves out, and weakening their returns. The service...