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...padded belt worn by the anchor; but, as in every game there are points, so in the tug-of-war there are tricks for gaining a fair advantage, used by the participants. The present tug-of-war team consists of four men, each man having the advantage of a thick cleat which is fastened to the floor. The ribbon is started at a point midway between the two teams, each side pulling for ten minutes, according to the Mott Haven rules, and at the end of that time the team, which has the ribbon on its side, is declared...
...Lynn Ice Company is harvesting ice 22 inches thick at Milton...
...floury fingers, entering so ardently into what will become for so many of them, very soon, a serious part of their life's plan - in view of the inevitable recurrence, three times a day, of something to be cooked; the inevitable Biddy, with all her old-world ignorance thick about her, and the likewise inevitable "John," the state of whose affections, we are assured, is singularly dependent on the success of our culinary operations...
...Thick and stiff, studded...
...looked at the thick clouds that were rolling blackly in from the south-east and then at the white-crested waves breaking over the black, jagged rocks. The tide was coming in very swiftly. The float that held half-a-dozen little row-boats was thumping restlessly against the pier where I stood. A single yacht was dancing up and down like a feather at her moorings a few rods away...