Word: blew
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was defective drainage about the place, which was very objectionable when the wind blew in the wrong direction. Another nuisance was having the family who owned the house quartered in the cellar...
...uphold the cause of the Faculty. And now the keeper of the tourney, who bore on his shield the proud motto "Ike Dean"* summoned the herald Jone d'Harvard to give the signal. Casting a look at the dial of the neighboring cathedral, with might and main he blew the bell which was the signal for opening the joust...
SATURDAY, May 15, was all that could be desired as to the weather overhead, but a strong breeze blew up the Charles River course, and did much to make the times of the crews poor. At about three o'clock the tug left the West Boston Bridge pier, and steamed over to the Union Boat House, where Dr. Charles H. Williams, the Referee, was taken on board. Fifteen or twenty minutes were then lost in mooring the judges' boat, after which the tug proceeded to the mile buoy, where F. B. Holder, '81, and G. H. Williams, '81, were waiting...
With that a wind arose and blew away...