Word: thread
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cover of the Cercle play programme, which goes to press today, was designed by A. Stewart Walker '98. It is of buff colored paper, tied with a thread of the Cercle colors, blue, red and white. At the top of the cover are the following words in red and black lettering: "Cercle Francais-de I'Universite Harvard-Onzieme Representation Annuelle-Le Medecin Malgre Lui-Comedie en Trois Actes de Moliere." At the bottom are the dates and places of the performances and in the middle of the page is a fac-simile of the Cercle Francais Medal. The cover...
...contents are as follows: "The Llewellin Setter," by L. H. Smith; "Sweet Marjory," by Sara Beaumont Kennedy; "Modern Snipe," by T. S. Van Dyke; "Shooting at Swatow," by A. B. Hoff; "The Wizard of the Cascade;" by S. C. Kendall; "Hunting the California Lion," by L. D. Rees; "A Thread of Mystery," by Louise D. Mitchell; "Cruising on the Gulf;" "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Cycling in Mid-Atlantic," by O. Howarth; "Paddling a Pipanti in Honduras," by E. W. Perry; "About the Balearics," by Chas. Edwards; "Rabbiting," by H. Rave; "The New Hampshire...
...Dreams in Woven Thread," Mary S. Lockwood...
...mortar-board caps. The color shall be dark. The doctor's caps may be of velvet. Each cap shall be ornamented with a long tassel attached to the middle point of the top. The tassel of the doctor's cap may be in whole or in part of gold thread...
...most interesting of these tests is an arrangement for measuring a runner's reaction time down to the thousandth of a second which has been contrived in the Yale Laboratory. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner which thread breaks an electric contact the moment the runner starts. Each of these electric contacts makes a spark on a smoked cylinder in such a way that the time which has elapsed between the first contact and the second...