Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...practice of the Shooting Club yesterday the trap broke and, as none of the old ones could be made to work, the shoot was postponed until this afternoon. The Founders Cup, novice and match B will be continued at two o'clock...
...claim that the new method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper men and women talk...
...shot November 24th or 25th at or near Springfield, as may be agreed upon later, under the conditions usually governing the Yale-Harvard matches, namely, each team to consist of five (5) men, each man to shoot at 30 birds, fifteen at a time, three unknown angles from one trap (or three set so as to be the same as one trap). The rules of the American Shooting Association to decide on other points...
...dark shades are raised and lowered easily from the back of the room. In one side of the platform for the stereopticons is a trap door which leads to the basement of the building. On the whole this new lecture room is far better than the old one, not only on account of its greater size, but because of the completeness and convenience of the fittings...
...first floor will be the large vestibule, trophy room, rooms fitted with shower baths, and a massage room. The main gymnasium room will be on the second floor, and the running track will be suspended between this floor and the roof. The roof will be mainly of glass with trap ventilators...