Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 282
ll further, by placing a tumbler fullof any liquid in the inside of a broad hoop, which you holdin your hand by a small piece of string fixed to it, andtwirling it round at your side. If you do this with velocity,although the tumbler, in the circles made by the hoop, isfrequently quite bottom… … boys owk book. 253 the hoop is in rapid motion, yet there is some danger untilyou are rendered expert by practice, of the tumblers fallingwhen you begin to put the hoop in motion, and when youwish to stop it. If, therefore, you are not perfectly capableof doing it, state the fact only, which some…
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