Word: glasses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GLASSES adjusted to any face firmly and neatly, so that they will not vibrate or drop off during any exercise. Our patent eye glass holds more firmly than spectacles. Large variety of patent frames. The fitting of glasses for tennis, base-ball, bicycle riding and all sports a specialty. Sanborn & Don ovan, Opticians, 3 Winter St. (one flight), Boston...
...before yesterday a cat created much excitement in N. H. 6. She escaped from durance vile in the biological laboratory of the Agassiz Museum, and in her fright jumped through a pane of glass, and fell from the window, which is in the fifth story, to the ground. She landed squarely on her feet and started off on a run, pursued by several men, but could not be caught...
Base-ball men practicing on Jarvis Field the other afternoon, succeeded in breaking two panes of glass in the Hasty Pudding building...
...glass-ball matches on Saturday afternoon the Harvard Shooting Club beat the Dedhams by a score...
...this ought to be remedied; the complaint has been made so often before that it should be listened to. Men are constantly in danger of severe headaches if not of actual sunstroke from this cause. The rays of the sun coming on a June day through a pane of glass, falling upon an unprotected head or neck beneath, and playing over its surface for an hour, is excessively painful, if not dangerous. Then, the glare caused by this same cause is excessively unpleasant, both to lecturer and student. Negligence to remedy these defects has transformed what ought...