Word: across
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Venus to be one of a group of figures, others have restored her "juggling with the apple," still others have placed a column for her arm to rest upon. The figure probably stood close up against something, her left arm resting upon some support, her right arm bent across the body, and her left foot resting upon some object...
...have been working steadily for the last few days on the track and grounds at Holmes Field, getting them in readiness for the class games which will be held next Saturday. The side-walks that were across the track have been taken up so as to leave the straightaway 220 yards stretch open, and the spaces for jumping have been raked and rolled. A blue-book for entries has been placed in the office at the gymnasium...
...from Misti on the other side from Arequipa are several other stations, Mount Blanc (15,700 feet elevation), Hursos (13,400), Cazro (11,100), and Santa Ana (3,400). This forms a complete chain of stations, the most perfect in the world, reaching from Mollendo on the sea coast across the Andes...
...film side up, into a wooden box, having a close-fitting sliding wooden cover. Upon the sensitive plate were laid two clear glass slips, less than one sixteenth of an inch thick. A space was left between them about four inches long and one half an inch deep. Across the glass slips to hold them in place was put a narrow bar of pine wood five-sixteenths of an inch thick. The wooden cover, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, was then pushed into place. The wooden box thus prepared was placed within a covered pasteboard box, the walls...
...outside of the members of last year's crew. A run of nearly four miles was taken, with body exercises and a very little tank work. There will be no race this year with Oxford or Cambridge, as it is impossible to arrange suitable dates. Our crew cannot go across early enough to suit the Englishmen, and they cannot hold their crew together long enough after their race to meet Yale. It was the general hope that this race might be arranged and its failure this year is a disappointment...