Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crew gaining alternately, the College eight perhaps drawing up slightly. When about half a mile below the Harvard bridge, the College crew went to pieces, several of the men caught crabs, and the boat almost stopped. The 'Varsity at once drew ahead and finished with nearly two lengths of clear water between the crews. The men rowed in the following order...
...half lengths behind '99, who were rowing strongly. Ninety-eight made a game fight of it after passing the bridge and gained a length, but in the last quarter '99 put on steam, leading at the finish by a length and a half of clear water...
...adhering closely to the practice of his profession and rising by steady steps to a foremost place at the bar. He recently represented the Venezuelan government before the commission appointed by President Cleveland to determine the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana, and it is largely owing to his clear insight and unceasing industry that the boundary dispute has been so satisfactorily settled...
...lead but for the great popular sympathy for Greece. Public opinion in England is also for Greece, but thus far the English government has shown itself contemptuous of it. The policy of France is friendly. Russia is the most important power of all, and her policy has been clear from the beginning-the discouragement of the attempts of any European state to become powerful in the eastern Mediterranean...
...Yale debate was a surprise to the audience. This is true, and was due, no doubt, to the fact that on the question of bimetalism, the substantial matter at issue, the Harvard argument was unquestionably the stronger. Still, I think, the reason of our defeat is perfectly clear. The Yale men held that by the first half of the question the affirmative was required to defend a certain policy on the part of Congress; this policy, said the Yale speakers, would bring disaster. The Harvard men tried to make out that the first clause of the subject meant nothing...