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...either,' he added, with a smile. He told me that he didn't favor giants for the boat, though he thought that had Bacon's great crew of giants in '65 known how to row the new stroke their performance would have been marvellous. A sixteenth-of-an inch wire, he said, was stronger than an inch-and-a-half rope, meaning that the texture and not the size of muscle did the business in a boat...
...Wire netting has been placed over the windows of the Princeton gymnasium so that the nine can practice batting...
...space in which the delivery desk, the catalogues and the general reference-works are, will be copiously lighted with stationery fixtures. The "stack," which is much less apt to be used at night, will be supplied with transferable lamps which will be attached by a long wire to the end of each stack of books and may be carried along in the hand...
...seniors held their class day elections last Thursday. The balloting was the scene of much bickering and "wire-pulling." Some claim that there was underhand dealing; at any rate, a number of the most prominent men in the class were left in the cold, not even getting on the class day committee...
...Sale. Bed-room set, consisting of Ash bureau, washstand, 2 chairs and iron bedstead with wire mattress. Apply at Samuel Tuft's, furniture mover, Lyceum Hall...