Word: checking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down to them for years. It depends entirely upon the use of skilful men, with a neglect of balancing their team well, and it was through paying little or no attention to the style of game they must meet in their opponents, they found themselves too light to successfully check the heavy rushing. The weakness of their forward line left too much tackling for the halves, who in turn were so used up by this tackling, that they had no strength to show their skill when the time came...
...Holding in the line," always the most besetting of foot-ball sins and the most prolific cause of slugging in the past, has been kept in wonderful check this year, if any comparison be made with former years; but it may still be called a pet sin, and some of the points scored on the Polo Grounds this year were certainly accomplished through its agency. But fortunately the result of none of the games was apparently affected thereby...
Proceeds of sales of furniture and second-hand books will be sent before the end of the week by check...
...voting shall be secret, check lists being used. The class shall vote in ten sections, two tellers receiving and counting the votes from each section. Voting by proxy shall not be allowed. Whenever a candidate receives a majority of votes east on a formal ballot, he shall be declared elected...
...recognized the rights of these teachers' unions to corporate existence by permitting them to use a common seal, and to be represented by an attorney. This saved each excommunicated master the vexation and expense of a journey to Rome to have his case revised, and also put a certain check on the chancellor, who would now have to deal, not with any single master but with his guild brethren as a corporation. Between 1215 and 1254 these corporations came to be known as facultates...