Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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MINNIE. Aw, the crew are rowing well, aw. I telephoned Sal Hinkley at Yale yesterday, - a silk waist against a case of champagne that we beat, by Jove...
...EXETER beat '84 at football last Wednesday. The Freshmen do not yet play well together...
...sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
Next came the mile-walk. Three out of six men entered, appearing at the scratch. The walking was not very good, and R. H. Sayre, '81 (Columbia), beat Herrick, '82 (Harvard...
Eleven men entered for the standing high jump, and six competed. At 4 ft. 7 in., none were left except Keene, '80 (Harvard), and Soren, '83 (Harvard). The former beat the best amateur record, four feet ten inches, stopping at 4 ft. 11 1/4 in., while Soren surpassed every one with a record...