Word: teething
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harrison of the Veterinary School has completed some interesting experiments of a new device for controlling refractory horses. The trials were made upon a vicious animal which had the habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small electric battery which he carried in the buggy. The apparatus was so arranged that the driver could give the horse a shock of greater or less intnsity without injury. The trial was an entire success. The horse after two or three shocks became docile...
Gill, the famous foot-ball player of Yale, had two of his front teeth knocked out in the game with Pennsylvania about three weeks ago. He replaced the teeth and held them in position is best he could with his tongue until the game was finished, and then sought the nearest dentist, who fastened them in with silk cord, The cord has since be end, and. strange to say, the teeth are firm as ever...
...PEASE, Captain.DR. SLADE will read a paper on "The genesis of the Teeth in the true Ungulates," before the Zoological Club, tonight. The doors of the Museum will be open from 7.15 till...
...with redoubled forces and shouts of "Break it! Fire plug!" At this juncture one of the college reporters came upon the scene, and fired with noble frenzy he saw in his mind's eye the faculty dancing about, and one of them just escaping, by the skin of his teeth, from being placed in the bowl. Meanwhile the fire-plug had been gained, and ominous thuds began to tell of the severe ordeal the bowl was undergoing. Incensed, however, at being abused in such a way the fire-plug suddenly began to splutter and spurt, and in less than...
...travelled back toward the crimson end of the rope, at the end of the first minute Harvard had the advantage by four inches. There were three heaves during the next minute, in which Harvard gained two inches more. The Columbia men were tugging manfully, but Easton had set his teeth together and was looking out under his dark brows with a determined menace to the opposition tuggers, and was gathering the coils of rope for new heaves. After resisting passively the efforts of the Columbia men to tug away that six inches during the third minute, Harvard men began, suddenly...