Word: steele
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...machine and monopolize it, as was too frequently the case in the past. There will be a new style of adjustable pulling weight. In principle it is the same as the old pulling weight, but in the details of construction it is vastly superior. Wooden pulleys on steel shafts have been substituted for the old iron pulleys, and the cowhide has been replaced by Manila rope. The weights are placed in a stout wooden box, which is guided in its rise and fall by steel rods. When not in use this box rests on a rubber pad preventing the disagreeable...
...steel of Damascus, of shimmering blue...
...some other branches when either of the other two professors happened to be ill, and he spent his evenings in reading themes. The college laboratory, too, was in a rather uncertain condition. There was one large room in the building, - the college building was really very fine, and a steel engraving of it was put each year in the catalogue, - and on one side of this room were a couple of dozen bottles, some test-tubes, and an air-pump; on another side were some rocks, a few fossil bones dug up in the neighborhood, and a huge wasp...
Cambridge University, Trinity Hall, March 2 - 120-yards handicap, T. Evans (6 yards), 12 3/5 sec.; 120-yards hurdles, D. Q. Steel, 20 1/8 sec.; 440-yards handicap, W. H. Murphy (10 yards), 52 4/5 sec.; wide jump, E. Mawdesley, 19 ft. 5 in; mile open handicap, R. T. Wilson, Jesus (85 yards), 4 min. 31 1/8 sec.; two-mile race, S. Hoare, 11 min. 6 sec.; 180-yards consolation, A. Hartley...
...special edition of his book for the Senior Class. This edition will be bound in crimson cloth covers, with bevelled boards, and gilt edges; it will be printed on heavy paper, the pictures will be rearranged and some new ones added; and the advertisements - including the steel engraving of the Riverside Press - will be left out. At the end of the book will be placed a list of the present and past members of the Class of '78, together with the societies, clubs, and associations to which each member belonged during his Senior year; also the Commencement and Class...