Word: clay
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...traps on Yale Field, Saturday afternoon, by a score 224 to 223 out of a possible 250. Both teams did remarkably well considering the strong wind, and came near the intercollegiate record of 225. The best individual score was made by J. R. Gilman '09, who hit 49 clay pigeons out of a possible 50, while F. Trudeau, of Yale, scored 48. The summary follows: HARVARD. YALE. Gilman, 49 Trudeau, 48 Brewer, 45 Hebard, 46 Higginson 44 Thaw, 46 Morse 43 Dickey, 42 Hauthaway, 42 Morrison...
...most interesting of these collections is the case of graphite and clay in their crude forms. Here are shown the various stages in the manufacture of lead pencils, graphite, electrodes and lubricants. The materials are also displayed which illustrate the manufacture of the Welsbach light. Samples of the lighting fluid and the mantle dip, which renders the mantle incandescent, are shown, beside the cotton webbing in the mantle form before it is dipped in the solution of light-giving oxides...
Atlantic--"The Face of Clay," by A. S. Pier '95; "The Panic and the Banks," by F. S. Mead '87; "The Popular Ballad," by G. L. Kittredge '82; "Hesper," by Van Dyke...
...Cobden-Sanderson next traced the changes in the materials out of which books have been made, from the original slabs of baked clay, to the papyrus, parchment, and paper states. Then came an attempt to solve the question of the origin of the alphabet, through the progressive modification of hieroglyphics, passing through the hieratie, Phoenician and Greek symbols, and culminating in the invention of lower-case letters by the monkish scribes of the Middle Ages...
Pall Mall--"The Shepherd's Christmas," by W. Hyde '01, "The God of Clay," by H. C. Bailey...