Word: tins
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tin dise for the running high kick, much larger than the one used last year has been secured for the gymnasium...
...entered the next room, and here something met our gaze which very much puzzled us. It was a large cylindrical tin box, over which hung, suspended by an iron rod connected with the shaft over head, a huge steel blade. We gazed upon it with horror; it carried us back to the days of the French Revolution and the guillotine. We wondered if it might not be an instrument which in the middle ages had been used connected in some way with the Spanish Inquisition. At this point we were informed by our guide, who noticed our perplexity that this...
Oberlin students celebrating the supposed republican victory serenaded a doctor in the town with horns and tin pans. That gentleman responded with a volley of pistol bullets wounding one of the students...
Members of the drum corps can receive information in regard to drums by applying at No. 11 Matthews between the hours of 9 and 10 A. M., and 2 to 3 P. M. Fifers should procure B fifes instead of D fifes as announced yesterday. Tin whistles will not be used...
...into the street, destroying considerable property. Some of them had their clothing badly torn, policemen remonstrated with the young men, but without avail. When the officers arrested George Danby, one of the participants in the melee, the crowd turned upon and assaulted the police, hurling bricks, stones and tin cans at them. Officer Murphy was struck on the head with a brick, and Officer Conner received a blow from a stone. Four pistol-shots were fired during the disturbance, and one man claimed to have been shot in the hand. J. W. McBride was subsequently arrested in front...