Word: slides
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Number 6, Thomson, weight 175, is very short and his time is usually bad. He does not steady the crew in slowing up his slide...
Number 5, Perkins, weight 164, is inclined to weaken his leg drive after a few strokes, is very slow in the shoot and rushes his slide...
Coming now to the method of taking photographs, the lecturer showed the difference in the process. In taking a photograph with cathode rays a plain dry plate is used. There are the customary slides in the holder but there is no central opaque partition. The hand or object to be photographed is put on the slide and you get a photograph of the shade. As glass absorbs the rays a lens would be of no use and would prevent the taking of a photograph. Thus the common process of photographing is exactly reversed with the cathode rays. This was illustrated...
...place, there are still a large number of good men from which to choose the eight-men good not only in weight but in intelligence and alacrity. In the second place, the candidates are rapidly rounding into shape physically, and are already beginning to master the Columbia stroke, the slide being the only weak point...
...Duffield, weight 153 1bs., has a bad tendency to kick his slide out before he catches the water and is very slow in getting his hands away. His time is poor because he hangs badly at the full reach with...