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...turned them in their narrow beds...
...ground with a directness that enables him to use their muscular force to the fullest extent. He is a far better type of a runner than his English rival, for the latter often extends his body forward, and uses his limbs much as the steamboats on shallow, narrow rivers do their single wheel in the stern, hence he cannot obtain their full driving power out of them in short distances...
Fraternity badges in Germany consist of narrow ribbons worn across the breast...
Vigorous opposition is being made in Cambridge to any plan for fencing in Jarvis Field. The Cambridge Tribune says: "The college students desire to shut up Jarvis Field with a lofty fence so that they may realize more money by athletic exhibitions. As the border streets are narrow and the intended fences would stand close to the side-walks, the necessary effect would be to sadly injure the neighboring houses, to destroy their southern outlook, deprive them of most of their summer air and give a gloomy aspect to the lower front rooms; so that the taxes would have...
Representative J. S. Robinson of Ohio has recently made a valuable contribution to the ethnological collection of the Smithsonian Institute. It consists of a narrow bracelet of copper plated with silver, found in a mound on land along the Scioto river owned by Gen. Robinson, together with the skeletons of three mound builders, pieces of copper armor and curiously-fashioned arrow-heads. The wristlet is deemed especially valuable as an evidence of the ability of the pre-historic race which built the mounds to plate one metal on another...