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Word: slides (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Usage:

...toboggan club, organized in Brookline, proposes to have a slide on Wright's Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/21/1885 | See Source »

...toboggan club has been formed at Orange, N. J. with a membership of 200. The slide will be 1000 feet long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/14/1885 | See Source »

Williams will probably build a toboggan slide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/2/1885 | See Source »

...occupy the seats in it, and we should not expect a crew to adapt themselves to the boat. If I was ordered to provide a boat for an eight-oared crew, I should first ascertain every measurement of every man in it, and then adapt the rigging of each slide, etc., exactly to the man who would occupy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boating at Yale. | 10/26/1885 | See Source »

...jerk, and is made with just that force which can be carried through to the finish; the body is kept in motion all the time, without a hang at either end; the legs are used hard and the hands are drawn in with life at the finish; the slide and back are used at the same time; the blade is well covered at the moment of the catch; the feather is nearly flat; above all, there ought to be no hang at either end, and no let up in the middle of the stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Crew. | 6/16/1885 | See Source »

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