Word: heights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries for the standing high jump. The bar was started at three feet eight inches. All cleared successfully, till it reached four feet five inches. Mandell retired at four feet six and three-fourth inches. Clark and Lund at four feet eight and one-fourth inches. Rogers cleared this height and won the event. Clark and Lund then tried for second place, which was won by Lund at four feet six and three-fourth inches...
Between these engines is a smaller one of a similar kind, which forces the water up into a high white tower next to the reservoir, called the high service water tower. The water here rises to a height of 45 feet above the level of the reservoir, and by this means, some of the houses in Cambridge which stand on very high ground and otherwise could not be provided with water, are kept fully supplied with it. It is a great pity that the Halls in the college yard do not derive any direct benefit from this splendid system...
...will drift along in a life of cynicism and pessimism; if not blessed with wealth they will follow that occupation which offers them the means of subsistence with the least effort on their part. Had they only learned the lesson that man's happiness does not depend upon the height to which he rises, but to the well performance of that duty, however humble, which falls to his lot, they would have been happier men and better citizens...
...Yale senior has recently invented a new surveying instrument whereby the height of objects or their distance from the observer can be obtained...
...conveyance to the hotel. This, however, were set at rest by the presence of three tally-ho coaches, by which name were dignified three ordinary hotel coaches; but then one could sit on top and nearly tumble off, so what more could be wanted? At any rate, from this height of vantage the town was taken by storm; passing teams were urged to a race, and that, too, while climbing a hill; the hotel was, however, soon reached, and the prospective contest prevented. There ensued a scene of confusion worse confounded than to some seemed necessary. It must be decided...