Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Instructor, explaining centrifugal force: "Now, gentlemen, I will illustrate by the apparatus. When I apply-when the power is applied by the crank at this end"-(Sudden confusion and prolonged applause...
...jumped on him. He yelled "down!" Every one knew he was down; there was not any doubt about that. Then they let him up and the two sides formed in lines on each side of the ball. A Wesleyan man put his foot on the ball and with a sudden motion rolled it out behind him. It was seized by a Wesleyan who had been waiting and he tossed it back to another one behind him. This man kicked the ball with all his might far up among the Princeton men. All hands flashed away after it. A Princeton...
...attention of every student towards what may at any time produce a far greater calamity, namely, the lack of fire-escapes in several of the buildings in the yard. This question has been agitated yearly by the students until it has become almost a by-word, but of a sudden it may turn into a ghastly sort of joke, unless the college takes some definite action in regard to it. The clamors of the students last spring did have some little effect, apparently, on the corporation, for rousing out of their lethargy they gave one or two exhibitions of patent...
...think that Mr. Hawkins was drowned at once and died without struggle. Probably the same is true of Mr. Bartlett. Leicester Sargent was undoubtedly at the wheel and was heartily dressed on account of the weather and in the confusion had no time to prepare himself for the sudden dropping of the boat and was carried down with her. Rupert Sargent had secured a life preserver, which he hastily adjusted to himself, but being dressed and finding the life preserver almost worthless from its flimsy character, it was difficult for him to make much headway. He was not over three...
...small boys who used to infest every part of the college grounds greatly diminished, but those that have remained seem to have acquired a strangely altered tone of civility. But precisely why the ardor of the "shacker" in the pursuit of the wayward tennis ball should have suffered so sudden a cooling, and his numbers so sadly diminished, is not easy to see. We are perhaps forced to the conclusion that a reckless extravagance had characterized the players of tennis previous to the new rule, and that prices paid to "shackers" had ruled much higher then at present. Still...