Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Every morning now we have mounted regimental drill. Six hundred horses galloping in column of fours is a fine wave of power. The dust lifts up so thick it is like a fog, and you can barely see the next man ahead. Half-blinded, wet with sweat, and the horses on both sides rubbing against your legs, you go tearing, galloping on. Then suddenly through the white wall of dust you see the haunches of the horses ahead sink down and a hand shoot upward with the fingers spread apart. There is a quick jam, a creaking and rubbing...
Through the generosity of graduates ten handball courts are to be put up this week on the asphalt court behind the gymnasium. The fence at each end of the asphalt court is to be replaced by a wooden wall twelve feet high and one foot thick. Five handball courts, each fifteen feet wide, are then to be walled off along the ends. Two of these courts will be used by the baseball pichers, but the rest will be free to any one who may wish to play in them. The present overcrowded state of the indoor courts and the fact...
...ferns have been gathered into one room. An Australian fern with a trunk four feet thick and a silver leaved fern ten feet high, are the most interesting of these plants. Among the cacti is an excellent specimen of a giant cactus, which was obtained last fall...
There will be fifty suites. Those on one stair-case will be separated from those on another by a thick brick wall to serve as a fire protection and to deaden noise. Each suite will contain a study, bathroom, and, as a rule, two bed-rooms, but there will be a few single rooms. Special attention has been given to ventilation and lighting. Every suite will have a street and court frontage, and in every study there will be a large window eight feet wide with a stationary window-seat...
...that the following is a more exact statement of the facts: There have been sporadic instances of encounters between quick-tempered individuals. The vaguest rumor is the only foundation for the statement that these men were "scrapping to pay off old scores." It being physically impossible in the thick of the crowd to do anything but push, these "scraps," as they are called, have all occurred on the out skirts. Some of the spectators have taken the conduct of these four or five individuals whom they could best observe to indicate that the men in the thick of the rush...