Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...face of defeat prophesied on all hands and were finally victorious over rivals whose method was considered easy victory or ruination, and which proved neither one nor the other. The subscribers for the dinner have come forward in ridiculously small numbers, either through forgetfulness of the near approach of the date assigned or for some less charitable reason. Let us hope it was the former cause, otherwise we shall be forced to admit a strange lack of interest among the pretended supporters of the 'Varsity...
...your yesterday's issue? In expressing contentment with these measures, I do not think that I am altogether alone among the students of Harvard College. There are many, I think, who have noticed with regret the growing tendency of our college athletics to approach the standard of professionalism. These new regulations, it seems to me, will tend to check this tendency at Harvard, and if our other colleges join with her in this move, with them also. And if this happens Harvard will not be placed at an unfair disadvantage in her contests with other colleges. But what has seemed...
...been an eye-sore to inquisitive visitors at the boat-house. During the last week an unpleasant looking bulldog with his ponderous jaws ajar, each available space of which bristled with a tooth, has made his lair in the boat-house, and has been a gentle reminder to approach only within hailing distance...
...employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry's hand, "which is just out of reach, and his desperate clutches and frantic gestures, approach within a dangerous distance of the ridiculous...
...delightful. The score contains various pretty numbers, but they are all more or less the product of labor rather than of inspiration. The only exception is the waltz with which the second act closes, a most felicitous effort even for Strauss, though not even in this number does he approach the level of excellence which occurs at the same point in 'Die Fledermaus...