Word: slides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toboggan club, organized in Brookline, proposes to have a slide on Wright's Hill...
...toboggan club has been formed at Orange, N. J. with a membership of 200. The slide will be 1000 feet long...
Williams will probably build a toboggan slide...
...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...
...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...