Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Eighty-six is having some trouble to find an anchor for her tug-of-war team...
Stevenson is trying for the position of anchor on the '89 tug-of-war team. His weight is about 170 pounds...
...Easton has returned to the Law School, where he will take the second and third year courses. This saves a fine voice to the Glee Club and brings back the finest anchor Harvard ever had to the tug-of-war team...
...cars have lately fallen into of driving slowly so as to "hold" the cars of the rival line, is little less than an outrage. If this state of things which now prevails is allowed to continue we should not be surprised to see a line of cars lying at anchor on Main street at some not distant day, or, worse yet, the drivers may receive instructions to drive backwards. No wonder that an L road is prayed for by Harvard...
...inches to their credit. Then our men sat still and let the Lafayette men try to take the rope back. Easton, however, sat it out calmly, and could not be moved. At the end of four minutes, the word was give, Harvard heaved, Easton came down, and the Lafayette anchor rose to an angle of 45 degrees. Had the rope been less stiff and more manageable, he would have been pulled off the cleats; but before another heave was taken by Easton, Lafayette had let out over a foot of rope and their anchor settled back on his cleat. Time...