Word: builded
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cambridge men are bigger, older and better developed physically than the members of the Yale team. Captain Shaw of the L. A. C. team, expressed surprise that the American sprinters were for the most part of light build, and said that in his opinlon strength was essential to fast sprinting...
...companion in the 100 yards, E. H. Wilding, is tall but slight in build. His style is more graceful than Gormer Williams's, but he has not much power, and does not develop any more speed. It is probable that the Yale pair opposed to these two will be Byers and Burnett. In condition, both are good for 10 1-5 seconds, while neither of the Cambridge representatives at their best are better than 10 2-5 seconds. Byers last spring in the Intercollegiates was good enough to lead Crum at eighty yards, and he is now running stronger...
...cinder path. Englishmen claim that it is necessary to jump higher at the English style and that the turf is not so fast as the made path. L. E. Pilkington, the Cambridge representative for the double event, is short and heavy, not unlike Shaw of the London team, in build, and is speedy for the first five hurdles, but does not seem capable of holding the burst to the finish. With him will be W. M. Fletcher, who stands over six feet, and is broad-shouldered rather than heavy. He is slower than Pilkigton and they bear about the same...
...same way, when a man has been reformed from a life of evil, his first impulse is to seek a new and more congenial environment. His noblest course, however, is to stay where he is and to build up a new existence for himself. Christ detached from himself the man who needed to stand alone. So ought we all to live patiently where God has called us, and to find our resources in him. There is a kind of isolation in all profound experience, but this isolation is only temporary. All true souls meet at last. John Hall once said...
Question: "Resolved. That it will be the duty of the next Congress to build additional new ships for the navy...