Word: barrel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is a popular idea that the utility and magnification of a microscope depend somehow on its size and formidable appearance. How false this conception is can be learned any day by a visit to the work-shop of a practical microscopist. His resplendent "double barrel" binocular is kept carefully under cover, at ordinary times, and only brought out for exhibition, while the real work is done with a smaller and apparently inferior instrument...
...quiet afternoon, with just enough of coolness in the air to make a warm gun barrel acceptable to the fingers, attracted a dozen marksmen to the Watertown grounds on Wednesday. The changes made in the arrangement of the shooting shanty and the trap pits have greatly improved the grounds, and the men present seemed well pleased with the accommodations. The first match contested was at 10 clay birds, 18 yards rise, thrown from five angles. The scores were as follows: W. H. Slocum, 9; F. S. Palmer, 8; M. H. Clyde, 6; F. S. Mead, 5. On the conclusion...
...boys, and was within 12 hours laid up in the hospital. Shortly afterwards he died. The cadets said he hurt himself by falling out of a hammock. To the contrary there is evidence that he was fatally injured by hazing. He was ridden on a rail, rolled in a barrel and pummelled. This was a year ago. It is alleged that, although the greatest precautions are taken by the superintendent, it has been impossible to either detect a cadet hazing a "plebe" or find one who will testify against others, notwithstanding they have sworn to obey certain laws which prohibit...
...advocating this addition to the club's functions I do not wish to detract in the slightest degree from the interests of the rifle shooters, for I am myself an enthusiastic friend if the grooved barrel, as well as of the smooth bore, team may be got into training by the first of next term which shall shoot against some of the rifle clubs in the neighborhood during the springmonths, All that the shot-gun men ask is that some provison many be made for them by which they can obtain practice at least as early as March or April...
...jump, 5ft. 2in.; standing long jump, 9ft. 71-2in.; mile run, 5 min. 15 3-8 sec.; 1-4 mile run, 57 1-4 sec.; 100 yards dash, 11 1-2 sec.; 1-2 mile race, 2 min. 13 1-4 sec.; hurdles, 17 1-2 sec. A barrel of cider was given to the class of '83 as winning the greatest number of events...