Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take out her provisions Hallgertha sends a servant to steal from a neighbor, and when questioned by her husband replies it is not for men to concern themselves about the cooking. Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain...
Harvard did some good ground gaining but was finally forced to punt. McNear was hurt and Wardner took his place; and Whitney substituted Butterworth who got a bad blow on the head. Yale rushed the ball to Harvard's 5 yard line and there lost it on a fumble. Whitman tried to kick but the Yale rushers were on him before he had a chance and forced him to make a safety touch down. During the remainder of the half Harvard played a plucky game and prevented Yale from doing any more scoring...
...centre. The team has been playing in very hard luck, the whole season, and man after man has been laid off on account of injuries. Yesterday, in the line, Gray at left end had hardly recovered from his injury of Thursday; Weed at tackle suffered from a very severe blow in the chest; Hunt, at centre, has had water on the knee; Watriss came in at the last minute to play right guard in the place of Stearns who broke a bone in his hand; Newell at right tackle suffers more or less from heart trouble, and should really...
...success of the national Democracy aims a blow at the interests of Massachusetts. - (a) It means an entire change of point on the tariff issue, threatening (1) the stability of many industries, and (2) the continued prosperity of the working classes. - (b) It gives countenance to an unsound currency, disastrous to moneyed interests of the Commonwealth: Lodge's speech of Sept. 17, Hoar's speech in Boston Journal of Sept. 23, Harper's Weekly...
...duty to attempt to communicate to those upon whom the blow of his death has fallen with even greater weight than upon us, his fellows, some idea of the deep sympathy which we have for them in their sudden and overwhelming trouble...