Word: drivers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon a vicious animal which had the habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. The experimenter contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small electric battery which he carried in the buggy. The apparatus was so arranged that the driver could give the horse a shock of greater or less intnsity without injury. The trial was an entire success. The horse after two or three shocks became docile, and obeyed the driver's commands instantly...
Second year honors in classics have been awarded as follows: Highest honors-Phillip Stanley Abbot, Reynolds Driver Brown, Arthur Winfred Hodgman, George Rublee. Honors-Frederick Melvin Brown, Harry Edwin Burton, Lewis Henry Dow, Charles Mayo Eaton, Martin Edward Gill, Richard Calhoun Harrison, Ralph Hoffman, Edward Parker Kelly, Maurice Whittemore Mather, Henry Tyler Perry...
...celebration of the birth day of Ithaca as a city was the occasion of a scene resembling a Parisian affray between the students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water...
...confectioner's wagon was abandoned by the driver at Twentieth St. Scarcely had he gotten out of sight when the crowd raised the vehicle and a struggle for the contents took place...
...system of weights at its extremities, which rise and fall according to the number and weight of the cars attached. A slot about three-quarters of an inch wide runs between the tracks, and through it the clamp of the dummy or grip car is operated by the driver. The cable moves at a uniform rate, but the speed of the cars can be regulated by letting the clamp grasp the cable more or less loosely as the occasion may require. In the winter the snow is removed by a plough attached to the cable. In case any break occurs...