Word: armes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tennis Club, of England, has effected some radical changes in the rules of Lawn Tennis, which will soon be published as amended. The service line is to be moved a foot nearer the net, making the distance 21 feet instead of 22 feet, as formerly, which will make straight arm-cuts in serving much more difficult to execute than under the old rules. Also, the player is prohibited from leaning over the net to strike the ball, but is compelled to wait until it is on his side of the net before he hits it. We are sorry that lack...
...arm is like the Bible because it makes glad the waste places." Of course-it is. Explain both allusions...
Sunk to their arm-pits in a slough...
ACCORDING to the Advocate's metrical method of measurement, one member of the University Crew is thirty-two feet around the chest, fourteen feet around the calf, and twelve feet around the upper arm. Let the Yale men hear and tremble, for the other men are proportioned equally magnificently...