Word: topped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large at the bottom, rising in a graceful curve till the area of its circle is four times as large as it was where it began, and then growing smaller again to a second circle at the top. It is no longer a pyramid, with its broad foundation in the mud and its solitary apex...
...miles without hands, F. F. Ives, 6m. 39s.; one mile, 3.10 class, E. A. Hoffman, 3m. 7 1 5s.; 20 mile, Pope cup, D. E. Hunter, 1h. 14m. 5s. In this last race, by an unfortunate accident, H. S. Kavanaugh took a header and Hamilton and Hunter fell on top of him. Kavanaugh was considerably bruised and Hamilton quite severely injured. Hunter quickly mounted his bicycle and finally won the race...
...first military company here at Harvard was organized in the year 1769, and had for its first captain a graduate of 1770. The uniform consisted of "a blue coat, the skirts turned with white, nankeen breeches, white stockings, top boots, and a cocked hat." This company continued to rejoice the hearts of the students, and win the smiles of the Cambridge maidens for twenty years, till finally, indifference caused its death. Its last captain was a member of the class of 1787. After a sleep of twenty-one years, it was (in 1811) reorganized by Gov. Gerry, and then received...
...trying for the Mott Haven team have been assiduously at work under Mr. Lathrop's guidance, practising running, jumping, throwing the hammer, putting the shot, etc. The track has not been in good condition, so that no very good records have been made. A top dressing of loam and cinders to the depth of an inch has been put on the track, and it will be two or three days before it will be in condition for running, and probably a fortnight before bicyclists can venture on it. Prof. Shaler says that Holmes Field was formerly a peat bog, which...
...focus" of the old-style footlights. He then proceeded to speak of elocution as an aid to the actor. "The study of elocution is necessary for the acting art. The advice of the old actors was that the voice should be pitched so as to allow the top galleries to hear. This idea has passed away. An actor must be natural, but to be natural he must be broader than nature. One always listens to the elocution of Edwin Booth with the greatest pleasure. In pronunciation an actor should not follow the dictionary, but the emotions. Pronunciation...