Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Even a combination of our two literary publications failed utterly to break the unprecedented string of athletic triumphs just amassed by Phi Beta Kappa. The geniuses tolled the bell over the Monthly-Advocate baseball team, the count being...
...George D. Widener, of Philadelphia, donor of the Widener Memorial Library will break ground for the new building today, turning up the first spade-full of earth at 12.30 o'clock. The ceremony will be very simple with no address; and only a few invited persons will be admitted...
...advisory committee and the coaches thought that three hard games at the end of the season were too severe a strain on the players, and they therefore thought that it was best that Dartmouth be dropped from the schedule next fall. This does not mean, however, that the break in the long series of contests between the two Universities will be permanent, for it was merely decided upon for the one year. The substitution of an easier game will enable the players to be in a better condition for the Yale game than they would be with a series...
...that night, we have decided to accept your offer of a practice game. We warn you however, that we will come fully equipped with our own squad of us hors, referees, umpires, etc., who at the first instance of inadaptability to the new rules, will participator themselves into, and break up the game. We have also voted that we must have some pecuniary asset in order to counterbalance the tremendous advertisement which such a game will be to you, and must therefore insist that the gate receipts be divided among the winning team. Hoping that you will be satisfied with...
...already been demolished and about three-quarters of the dredging for the foundations of the Cambridge Pier has been done. The work of driving the piles for the pier will be begun the middle of next week and will require about five days. Special machinery has been devised to break up the ice on the river and thus prevent any delay to the work...