Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen were justly indignant at this answer, and at an indignation meeting of the class some rashly shook their umbrellas in the air and denounced the girls as mean things...
...air cushions on the doors of the college dormitories, have, after a week's trial, become completely out of order in many of the dormitories...
...prominent players of Yale's team. It seems that he caught a severe cold on Thanksgiving Day at Princeton and has lain unconscious ever since at the point of death. It was a frightful day and any person was in danger, who stood in the open air for any length of time, especially those who played in the game. It is a very sad ending to the pleasant and invigorating sport of the fall. Death seems especially sad and shocking where its cause lies in some sport that was intended to strengthen and invigorate the man and help...
About 6000 friends of the tony 7th regiment gathered in the vast armory this evening to witness the 10th annual games between members of the regiment. The games began with a pistol shot at 8, and thereafter, until toward midnight, the sound of the pistol scared the air with admirable frequency and persistence. The games were all well conducted, and some of the events were exciting, notably the bicycle races and the mile walk, but the greatest interest centred on the tug-of war. In this, three colleges were represented - Harvard, Columbia and the City of New York. Yale...
...expired a curious line of fortuitous circumstances aided by a magnificent rush gave the Bacterias a touch-down. With but three seconds left the ball was placed and a goal kicked tieing the score. So scant was the time that one enthusiast declares that the ball still in the air had not yet reached the goal posts before the contest was ended. The support of the teams was wildly enthusiastic...