Word: wood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boats, unless it be the shell, is this consideration of so great importance. The canoe must be exactly fitted to the canoeist in order that the maximum of speed and comfort may be attained. It is a matter of taste whether the canoe shall be constructed of paper or wood, but if two canoes of the same dimensions are placed side by side it will be observed that the paper one is much lighter, stiffer, and of greater strength. Its lines are firmer and owing to the fact that the paper skin is varnished over its waterproofing, it presents...
...funds for his great Indian Institute at Oxford, and more especially endowments for scholarships, and also to collect objects for his Indian Museum. In this latter respect he has been most fortunate, and has received, among other curiosities, two great doors, ornamented with beautiful brass work hammered into the wood...
...Nichols swift delivery with perfect ease. Winslow pitched well during the rest of the game, and was efficiently supported by Crocker. The Tremonts' fielding was very poor, and the nine was evidently demoralized by the absence of Fowler, their regular pitcher. Their best playing was done by Sullivan and Wood-man. For Harvard, Phillips and Winslow did the best batting, and White led the Tremonts...
...head of its boating department, and resorted, as of old, to a professional coach. The result was that Harvard, with the English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system I introduced and won easily both years. In the face of the fact, however, that nothing in the world but an excellent system had given them the prestige during those two years, Yale in 1882 and '83 employed...
...Harper's Monthly are the illustrations. In this respect the April number can not fail to satisfy the most exacting. Mr. Closson offers to us the first result of his trip to Europe in his reproduction of part of Murillo's "Immaculate Conception;" all lovers of engraving in wood can not but feel that this picture alone is worth more than the price of the magazing. The other features among the illustrations are the drawings of Mr. Gibson, illustrating Mr. Roe's novel. Mr. Dielman's drawing for the same novel, and the drawing of Howard Pyle on the "Impressment...