Word: broken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured up! "Is he, is he dead?" I murmur. "Oh, no, the faculty forbade-." Here we hear a smothered yelping as of some one in pain, but are reassured...
...little broken when one young man happened to be just on hand to see the lone damsel safely back from the remote dining room car. He was quite a hero among the others after that...
...first meeting of the Sheffield Gun Club, at Yale, only 39 clay pigeons were broken, out of 90 shot at in the match...
...college buildings shows a corresponding decrease. In the table printed on another page, statistics will be found bearing on this question, by which it will be seen that there has been, for the past ten years, a steady decrease in the number of freshmen rooming in the yard, only broken by the erection of a new building, or the graduation of a very large class; and that whereas in 1874,60 per cent of the freshmen roomed in the yard, but 38 per cent. room there today The reason for this is, we think, the increasing eagerness with which...
...scrimmage game, with, in some cases, an intentional tendency to looseness in the scrimmages. The most important places on a team are the quarters, and without a pair of good quarters, a team, however strongly the other positions may be filled, is weak. As soon as the scrimmage is broken, the ball is snatched by one of the quarter-backs, carried forward, or else passed back to one of the half-backs, who play well...