Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...building and a bath for the 'Varsity football and baseball teams as well as visiting teams. The other side is to go to the Mott Haven team, and the centre section will be given over to the class teams and men not regularly on the 'Varsity teams. Overhead the large centre portion, which is now useless, is to be enlarged by flooring over the well, and turned into a general exercise room for the various teams. It was also proposed to lay out hand ball courts in the vacant spaces at the rear of the building...
...city of Cambridge there are about 2500 miles of overhead wires, and somewhat over 800 miles of underground wires. Many of these are very heavily charged with electric currents of high tension. The are light wires and the electric car feeders have the highest tension and are exceedingly dangerous. It is often thought that a shock can not be received from a single wire, but this is a mistake, for the gound is thoroughly charged with the current from the underground wires, and when contact is made with the overhead wire by a person standing on the ground the circuit...
...probably, Mr. Morse said, only a question of a few years before the large majority of the overhead wires in our large cities will be placed under ground, even including the trolley-wire itself. Experiments have already been made, which show that cars can be run equally well with the trolley-wire under ground...
...regard to its probable course have appeared in the newspapers, few of them have any foundation. Its orbit is a very interesting mathematical puzzle. The observations taken here are now being worked upon and the results will be made known in a few days. The comet is almost directly overhead and can be seen with a field glass...
...fall handicap games of the H. A. A. were held yesterday afternoon under favorable conditions overhead, though the track was rather wet and muddy, Nevertheless the events went off in good order and with delay, the number of entries was large, out and though no records were broken the resultswere very satisfactory. We publish with our account of the games a brief summary of the Yale games held a week or two ago, and a comparison of the records in the various events is interesting...