Word: underground
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Shaler has an article in the December Chatauquan on "The Work of Underground Water," that treats on some of the ground covered...
Beautiful Harvard Street and more beautiful Harvard Square, is to be blocked up with unsightly telegraph poles and covered with wires. We wish to enter a New York plea for underground wires. At this late date to disfigure the old street is truly iconoclastic...
...convenient form, but we should recommend the reading of any of Turgenieff's novels, more especially "Virgin Soil," as an excellent way to get a fair and at the same time sympathetic idea of the great movement now progressing in Russia. There is also a book entitled "Underground Russia," which is of inestimable value in giving one an idea of the inside workings of nihilism. It is written by a nihilist leader at present exiled in England, and is authoritative as an expression of revolutionary views...
...small box underground, hardly any larger than our rowing room; apparatus of every kind is strewn around in graceful confusion; and amid a litter of clubs, dumb bells, and c., sits the famous crew. There is a pair of parallel pars at the end of the boat, and the stroke is always in great danger of being kicked in the head and having his eye-glass disarranged. The chest-weights take up one side of the room, and when in use, the men on the flying rings have to stand aside. In fact, there is so very little room anywhere...
...electrical paper reports a new device for aiding base ball umpires in their arduous duties, An underground wire forms a circuit with all the bases. When the base runner touches the plate, an electric bell rings in a small tower near the umpire's position. It is to be hoped that this device will be fully tested this season, and, if found useful, adopted all over the country. It will be a grand thing if, in course of time, an umpire can have all his duties performed by electricity; and if the inventor of this noble plan could only find...