Word: beating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Many tribes of Indians solved the difficulty of invention by simply thinking of the Great Spirit. In this way they thought they received directly from him inspirations to discover things. Among the Polynesians, all human inventions originated from the other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...
...after the eleven, which he had for the first time captained, had been defeated by Yale, was seen one day outside the Gymnasium passing a football with two or three other men. When asked what he was doing he answered, "Getting ready for next year." And next year Harvard beat Yale. On each of those two years, at the close of the football season, the undergraduates gave the eleven a football dinner. At the first dinner they met to cheer an eleven which, though beaten, had done credit to Harvard; at the second to welcome royally a conquering team...
Although the weather conditions could not have been better for the track games yesterday afternoon, the track was heavy and no especially good records were made except in the 120 yard high hurdle race which was won by G. G. Hubbard '00, who, owing 13 yards, beat out E. H. Clark L. S., by a yard. Hubbar also won the 220 yard hurdle race handily in 27 1-5 seconds...
...yard dash, W. H. Denholm '97, (scratch), beat G. H. Miffin '00, (18 yds.), by six inches...
Holt and Ward beat Ware and Scudder...