Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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BLAKEY has finished the eight-oared barge for the University crew. It is built of white-pine, with mahogany wash-boards. A small keel covered with iron will protect the bottom in some degree from shoals and other obstructions. The dimensions are 47 feet by 38 inches; those of a six-oared barge are 44 feet by 26 inches...
...have seen is this: A fire, caused by some defect in a chimney, breaks out an hour before noon; the two fire-extinguishers kept in the building are produced and found utterly useless; the city fire department is called upon, the building is drenched with water from top to bottom, and, after three hours' work, the flames are extinguished. The manner in which the fire department did its work has been criticised, - too severely, undoubtedly, and yet not altogether unjustly. We shall not enter into a discussion of the matter, for in our report of the fire we have given...
...bark canoe. They are made of thin pieces of cedar-wood, which have been planed perfectly smooth; these pieces are bent up at the front so as to form a sort of runner, but the boards themselves lie flat on the snow, being fastened together above, so that the bottom is smooth. They are made of all sizes, averaging about five feet by two, and can accommodate any number of people. They are so thin and limber that they bend over any obstruction which may be in the road, so that they are not stopped even by large pieces...
...body is avoided; and since this start "pumps" a man and drives the blood from the heart, it is an advantage not to be estimated too highly. Again, in a six the man pulls his stroke at a distance varying from 6 1/2 to 7 inches from the bottom of the boat; in an eight, however, the distance is between 8 and 8 1/2 inches, - a point at which much more effective work can be done. An eight, in addition, is much better fitted to carry a coxswain than...
...sleight-of-hand operations which this gentleman performed were, to say the least, wonderful. At his bidding the Tub transformed itself into a two-story French-roofed dwelling-house, with all the modern improvements, furnished most elegantly from top to bottom, while through the windows Diogenes himself could be seen, playing ball-pool upon the magnificent billiard-table which graced the second-story front-room...