Word: broke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three hundred yard race at the Powderhall grounds, Edinburgh, Scotland, Hutchings recently broke all previous records by three-quarters of a second, doing the distance in thirty seconds...
...Whiting, son of Congressman Whiting, of Massachusetts, has been fined $57, for an assault on Harry B. Osborne, a fellow-student at Williston Seminary, Northampton, Mass. Osborne was a new student, and Whiting insisted on his treating all hands. When Osborne refused, a fight ensued, and Whiting broke Osborne's nose and otherwise damaged...
...drank beer, and, although they did not stay as late, seemed to enjoy themselves as much as the students. Still, we are informed that less important "Commers" are apt to be rather noisier and later affairs than the one we have described. About half past twelve, the Commers broke up after singing a Latin song and the students dispersed...
Oxford is greatly excited by an attempt to appoint a dissentor as examiner of students in church theology, including the "39 articles." Prof. Jowett, lately attempted, according to custom, to address a meeting in Latin, but mixed his genders, broke down and fell back on English...
...Princeton men excelled in securing the ball, and in the snap and energy with which they kicked and tackled, while Harvard, who much surpassed them in weight, broke oftener through the rush line, but did not gain any decided advantage. [N. Y. Herald...