Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard was obliged to accept the date of Friday May 20 or else abandon altogether the chance of holding the games this year. It was a choice between leaving Cambridge during the week, and breaking seriously into the important period of college work, or permitting a blow to fall on athletics which the graduates of the two colleges had arranged between Harvard and Yale with so much care and with such sanguine expectations. Rather than allow these athletics such a set back, Harvard has chosen to break into her college work and grant Yale the benefit of a week...
...which he uses not only as a weapon, but also as a means of producing pleasant sounds. The mode of producing these sounds, picking the strings, is the basis of most of the string instruments, up to the pianoforte. The other mode of striking the strings a blow, was employed by the Assyrians, and later was made use of in the piano...
...next event was the Welter Weight Sparring between J. P. Roman, L. S., and H. L. Newman, '94. This was fought in three rounds of three minutes each. New-man started out with several face blows and Roman retaliated by landing some very clean hits on Newman's body. Both then sparred for wind until Roman led with his right and reached Newman's face. He tried it again but Newman ducked very prettily and escaped the blow. The second round was opened similarly to the first. Newman took the aggressive side and sent in several solid blows, for which...
...when Butler did the leading. In the first round Butler and Crane for a while tested each other's ribs by frequent soundings, then the former returned a lead from Crane and landed on his face twice. Crane's turn came a few moments later when he placed a blow on Butler's neck and followed it up with one from the right on his face. Butler hit back and time was called. In the second round Crane again punched Butler in the face and in return received a bloody nose. He then began to work more rapidly and repeatedly...
...York World states the matter as follows: "The greatest blow has just been made public by Capt. Hartwell, that Bob Cook has positively declared that he cannot come up to New Haven this year. This is an old story, but it is well known that Cook said last year that his coaching days would end with the '91 crew. He has recently told Hartwell that it will be utterly impossible for him to leave his business this year to come to New Haven...