Word: slings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indoor meeting of the Technology Athletic Club will take place at the gymnasium wither on the 13th or 20th of this month. The events will be as follows: Rumming high jump, standing high jump, running high kick, parallel bars, horizontal bars, fencing, fence baud, putting sling, Indian clubs, and middle, high and teacher weight sparring...
...your right as you enter stands a case of rare Roman coins, dating back as far as 400 B. C. They are of bronze, silver and gold; the oldest is a huge bronze as, which must have served the ancients, in time of need, as an excellent sling-shot. Unless you are an infatuated coin-collector, you will not spend much time at this case, but will pass on to other curiosities. On the shelf of a bookcase stands a cast of that grim old Puritan soldier, Oliver Cromwell, from the original mask taken after death and presented to Prof...
...occasion or excuse. It does not deal with the merits of the subject matter at all. The protectionists would do well if they could secure a privileged position for their doctrines and their speakers. They need such extraneous support. 'Dogmatism' is a big word. It is easy to sling it about. It answers no facts or arguments. The protectionists fall back on authority. Henry Clay believed in protection. Lincoln signed the tariff bill. Charles Sumner voted for it, etc. I have never debated all that rubbish. The tariff question is not to be settled by any such considerations as that...
Billy, the postman, has discarded the sling from his injured...
...TRUE.If the enterprise of the young publishers of THE HARVARD HERALD continues, the condition of society in Cambridge will be revolutionized. The paper is on the street and for sale in the horse cars at 3 A. M. After reading it workingmen become so aesthetic that they can neither sling sledge hammers nor smell a poppy. - [World...