Word: big
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...experience has been with American boarding-schools, that the faculty does not place sufficient confidence in the lad, and his "honor," part of character is dwarfed. These annual sports at Harrow were very enjoyable. Fine, manly boys, happy as the lark, and perfectly ignorant of the big old fight of life before them. I saw a running match of one hundred yards, one for a quarter of a mile, and a rattling one mile race, by four contestants. Hurdle racing and jumping concluded the first day's exercise. I could not remain the second day, but had sufficient experience...
...able to obtain more result from their exertions than the ancients. The men of the present day, we know, are larger than they were in bygone years, and therefore they should be more powerful; for it is an acknowledged axiom in sport that, other things being equal, "a big one will always beat the little one." - Nineteenth Century...
...next number of the "Atlantic Monthly" will contain among others the following articles: "On the Big Horn," John Greenleaf Whittier; Song, Mary N. Prescott; 'The Second Son," XII.-XVI. M. O. W. Oliphant and T. B. Aldrich; "Russia in Asia," W. H. Ray; "Lazarus Mart'n, de Cullud Lieyer," William W. Archer; "Via Crucis," Edward Irenaeus Stevens; "Paul Patoff," VIII., IX. F. Marion Crawford; "A Tory Parson," Louise Imogen Gurney; "The Pleasure of the King," Henry Guy Carleton; "Our Hundred Days in Europe." II. Oliver Wendell Holmes; General McClellan...
...almost impossible for an inexperienced eye to follow them, but as each one is guarded one hears the sharp thwack of the sword as it descends harmless on some part of the padding of the shoulder or throat. Suddenly a small tuft of hair seems to spring from the big man's head. "Halt!" cries his opponent's second. The swords are instantly stuck up by the seconds and the umpire steps up to examine the head. It was a close shave, but the skin is whole, so they start again. The men are now getting terribly excited. Breathless...
...accept those of her boating men and ten-year graduates, thereby placing herself in an unenviable light before the eyes of other large colleges. As the matter stands now, it seems to have narrowed down to one of two disagreeable alternatives: either that Yale desires to emulate the big boy in the primary class and have a chance to "lick" all the little boys without interference; or, as the Courant fitly says, Yale men "are altogether too prone to imagine other colleges prejudiced against" them. This latter alternative is rather the worse of the two, for the bully often outgrows...