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...moved "that the attention of the M. C. C. (Marylebone Cricket Club) be called to the unsatisfactory effect of Law 24, and to recommend that it shall be so altered as to read that a batsman shall be out if, with any part of his person being in a straight line from wicket to wicket, he stop the ball which, in the opinion of the umpire would have hit the wicket." A long debate followed, at the end of which the motion was carried by a vote of eleven to three, three of the counties not voting...
...impracticable to build a scaffolding on account of the currents, the bridge is built from each end so as to meet in the middle. The ends are balanced by piers near the shore and anchored firmly on the shore. The most common form of bridge in America is the straight Warren girder bridge. In Europe, the single bow-string bridge, arched on one side, and the double bow-string bridge, arched both top and bottom, are more common. The lecturer concluded by showing photographs of a large number of bridges, including those at Brooklyn, Harlem, Poughkeepsie and Niagara, besides several...
...lecturer first called attention to the two simple propositions of light namely: Light moves on straight lines and light is refracted on passing between two mediums of different densities...
...Johnson did not turn up; Williams withdrew and thus the final feather-weight was to be between Ellis and Gaines. In the meanwhile the middle-weight was called. F. R. Bangs, Harvard '91, and G. W. Culter, Association Gymnasium, faced each other. Bangs had the best of it straight through. He assumed the aggressive and used his man up badly. F. R. Peters...
...Must work chiefly to get a swing from hips. Must get more forward reach and keep shoulders well down on full reach. More heave with arms straight...