Word: used
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Trowbridge confined his lecture to the practical application of Roentgen's discovery to the arts and especially to surgery. He called attention to the methods by which use was made of the rays and the apparatus, and dwelt especially upon the fact that a photograph can be taken with simple means in reach...
...boat the only possibilities are Boardman and Mills, who are rowing at four and three respectively. Mills weighs 185 pounds. His legs, however, are rather short and consequently his stroke has a tendency of being very short. Marvin at 7 is a steady man but has a tendency to use his legs in a weak manner and swing back towards...
...faults of the crew as a whole are manifold but the chief one is that the men use their legs in a very feeble manner. Their time also is very ragged. As a whole, the candidates are considered as inferior to the ordinary men of freshman crews and unless a decided improvement takes place the outlook for a good crew seems doubtful indeed. Following are the orders in which the two crews rowed yesterday afternoon...
...poor folk, as well as with the many pretty and clever women whom Johnson had added to the list of his acquaintance. But one of the less known anecdotes of Johnson makes clear what, in spite of success and reputation and the pleasure of being dictator-or, to use Smollett's word, the great Cham of literature-remained a pervading quality of his great, uncouth, impeded man of genius. He asked an old beggar woman, who accosted him once in the street, who she was, and her reply that she was an old struggler gave the doctor keen delight. Johnson...
...swimming tank in the Brokaw Memorial has been open for use during the last few days, although not yet formally handed over to the college authorities, since some further arrangements must be made to perfect the heating apparatus. The tank is over one hundred feet long, about twenty feet wide, and the water is kept at a depth of about seven feet. It is lined with white tile and fitted up with spring boards, trapezes, rings and overhanging rings. The water circulates continually through pipes leading to the immense boiler where the water is heated. The dressing rooms connected with...