Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Would not some Hamlet who could come and "set you up a glass wherein you may see the inmost part of you" affect some beneficial results...
...senior class at Exeter have presented the Academy with a beautiful stained glass window to be placed in the back of the chapel...
...three times, not necessarily consecutively, to become the property of any one. In addition to this, the winner will receive a silver bowl outright. The second prize in the singles will be an antique toddy kettle on a crane. The prizes in the doubles will be cut glass punch bowls in cases. The tournament will be conducted under the rules of the United States National Lawn Tennis Association...
...boat and making them row ten miles a day without sharp coaching is no longer tenable, still less is it possible to deny the merits of the sliding seat. Hanlan could never have made the time he has without this Yankee notion. It is now frequently balanced on glass balls that permit it to move with the least possible friction as the oarsman stretches forward to grasp the water...
...fund, with such promising results. In order to facilitate a more careful study of the spectra of the brightest stars, Mrs. Draper has loaned to the Observatory the eleven-inch photographic telescope employed by her husband, and it has been mounted with two prisms in front of the object-glass, one of which has a clear aperture of eleven inches square and an angle of nearly fifteen degrees, forming thus the most powerful equipment for stellar spectroscopy in existence...