Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...legs, the whole standing about fifteen inches high. The cup is in the general style of the old Scandinavian (and Celtic) drinking horns of the eighth and ninth centuries. The horn is about four inches in diameter at the largest part, gracefully shaped, the ornamentation being of frosted, smooth-polished, oxidized, and hammered surfaces, with a broad band of bas-relief near the top. The bas-relief represents action and attitudes of riding a race. The whole is surmounted by a cap or cover of elegant design, bearing a winged wheel flying through bronzed silver dust...
...drawn away from '85 until there was clear water between the boats. '84 was very close on to '83 with '86 right behind, '85 now holding fourth position. About one hundred yards from the start '83, followed by '85, began to steer out of the straight course for smooth water near the wall, while '84 and '86 struggled close together in the straight course. '84 was here rowing a fast and wearing stroke, while '83 contented herself with holding her opponents just beyond the scow. Three-quarters of a mile from the start '83 slackened the stroke to about...
...pump, about half way down the course, '83 and '85 still kept up their moderate rate of speed, while '84 at this point made a spurt, and seemed to draw up rapidly on the seniors, but the latter had evidently been waiting for this, and now having reached the smooth water for which they had been steering, they quickened their stroke, and threw their whole weight on to their oars. The result was immediately apparent, for they seemed to glide away from their opponents at a rapid rate. The sophomores and freshmen were still struggling for last place, with...
...crews were favored with very smooth water yesterday...
Athletics are booming here as usual. A number of tennis courts have been laid out. The courts are of clay, hard and smooth. They covered the back campus between the grounds to the president's mansion and Edwards Hall. All day long there are a few players exercising themselves, and between twelve and two every court of the twenty or thirty is occupied...