Word: slides
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...toboggan slide has been erected on the Union Grounds in Boston...
There was good tobogganing on the Cambridge slide last evening...
There is to be a public toboggan slide built on the Union Athletic Grounds, in Boston. The will be two slides in opposite directions after the Russian style...
...Cambridge Toboggan Club held a meeting Monday evening for the election of officers and transaction of other business. Last year's officers were all re-elected, and it was voted to raise the chute and lengthen the slide...
...sliding seat equalizes the men in the boat who differ one from the other in length of trunk and limbs, permitting a man with a short reach to slide a little further than another with long arms, so to catch the water at the same angle and pull through a stroke of the same length. Without the slide no amount of rowing together would equalize the stroke; the short man would have to catch later or finish later than the long man, the result of which is, of course, unsteadiness in the boat and diminution of speed; for racing craft...