Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what we have done. We are apt to get confused as we proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others nearer to God. Towards the end of Lent, though, we usually find that we have not done so well as we hoped to. What we must do then, is to look to our original purpose and with God's help...
...urge those who have not already signed to do so at once. We also request those men now at the club tables which are going to break up this spring to sign...
...fall of snow, that, for the time, blocks all communication among men, is melted away in the presence of a genial sun; so the barriers of sect disappear and must disappear before such a kindly personality as that of the gentle preacher of Harvard. Men like him do not break barriers, they melt; they do not make an attack, they create an atmosphere...
...Fearing's record at the B. A. A. games on Saturday, and now holds, besides the outdoor record, the indoor world's record at 6 feet 2 1-2 inches. It is very probable that Mr. Sweeney will accept the invitation, and in that case he will attempt to break his own record. Considering the fact that Sweeney cleared the bar on Saturday with a good margin to spare, he is likely to show some remarkable jumping...
...indoor high-jumping records. A. J. Walsh, of the same club was allowed five yards in the one-mile run, but he and E. J. Hjertberg will both start at scratch, each trying for the record. Samuel Liebgold, of the Pastime A. C., will try to break the one-mile walk record. In the forty-yard dash, E. B. Bloss and Allen will meet. In the 600-yard run, Allen will meet S. A. Coombs and Elmer A. White and W. H. Allison are matched for a mile race...