Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college papers have done in fitting men for journalistic work. It is certain that since the growth of college papers, the college graduate in a newspaper office has become less the "horned animal" he was in Horace Greeley's day. At least, his horns are now covered with thick rubber, and not until frequent labor at erasing many choice effusions of the brain, have worn that rubber out are the points allowed to show. By that time the animal generally has strength enough to warrant the display...
...mostly crowd of students dressed in knickerbockers and canvas jackets, eagerly awaiting the announcements of the term averages and the annual bowl-fight that was immediately to follow. The sophomores had on the grounds a ponderous wooden bowl about 2 1-2 feet in diameter and fully 2 inches thick, strongly dovetailed to resist the most powerful efforts of the freshmen to break it. The object of the sophomores in this annual fight is to put the last honor man of the freshman class into the bowl, while the freshmen fight to get their last honor man off the field...
...youth I had studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa and Petrus de Abano. Their lessons, which had not hitherto been of much practical service, recurred to my mind. Stooping down I drew a circle round myself and my old friend in the fragrant white blossoms which were strewn so thick that they quite hid the grass. This circle I fortified by the usual signs employed, as Benvenuto Cellini tells us, in the conjuration of evil spirits. I then proceeded to utter one of the common forms of exorcism. Instantly the myriad houris assumed the forms of irritated demons; the smoke...
...capped student addresses a blue cap. Each color has its corner in the dueling room, and here the students smoke and drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room in the following fashion: All the body is protected with thick leather plastrons, and heavy gauntlets cover the hands and arms. Their eyes and nose are protected by gauze goggles so that no slip of the sword can injure them. The forehead, chin and cheeks are left exposed. The dueling weapon is somewhat like a rapier, but longer and flatter and quite dull with...
...unfortunate mistake has been made in regard to the track, owing to a misinterpretation of the contract. The specifications called for a layer of coarse cinders and gravel upon the foundation, and then upon this a layer three inches thick of fine cinders and sand. This would make a porous covering through which any water could easily pass to the foundation and be drained off. But instead of this being done a layer of small rocks and gravel was laid, and this covered with a layer of ashes and fine gravel. Of course this would tend to form a concrete...