Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...high jump in the Yale games was won by Morse of the Boston Athletic Association by an actual jump of 5 feet, 8 5-8 inches, and not by Green of Harvard...
Western railroad stocks represented at first a certain profit to the stock holders but the actual money received did not amount to much. The stockholders of western roads have little by little grown to be eastern men, and thus it is that stockholders and the actual running and controlling powers have separated-a state of affairs which cannot fail to be disastrous. The bond holders are the real owners of western railroads...
...advisable to bulldoze all men with whom they come in contact, but the best cross-examiner is he who treats the witnesses as if they were guests in his own house. But people will say, "Yes, this is all very well in theory, but how is it in actual practice?" Judge Smith admitted that there are many men who do not care for the justice of a case but are willing to undertake any case if they see a chance of winning. The majority of lawyers, too, are very slow to abandon a case when once fairly started, but there...
...communication published in yesterday's CRIMSON appears to us to take a view of the dual league question which is theoretically admissible, but does not take into consideration the actual facts. Our correspondent is mistaken in writing,- "Without any agreement or any red tape we have a league de facto." Unfortunately, we have no league in any sense of the word. In the present athletic crisis we need some definite understanding with Yale assuring annual contests between the two colleges. We cannot afford to withdraw finally from the Intercollegiate Athletic association without making some provision for future contests...
...been apparent. When sifted to the bottom much of the objection to tug-of-war seems to be in the manner of training. The candidates have been in the habit of preparing themselves by practice pulls which are in reality almost as much of a strain as the actual contests. Instead of this the men ought to undertake a regular system of exercise, just as much as runners or jumpers and, as we understand, this was the method of training proposed by the H. A. A. for this year. With such a change a great part of the objection...