Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Harvard could not gain and Yale got the ball. Bliss kicked to Trafford. Neither he nor Lake could gain, and so the ball was sent back to Bliss. McClung made a slight gain, but Bliss dropped the ball. Emmons fell on it; but the whistle rang out sharp and clear, announcing that the first half was ended...
...defensive play was also weak and their opponents scored both their touch-downs by the criss-cross round Adam's and Whittren's end, the runner getting clear without difficulty although without assisting interference. Whittren when he got through almost invariably over ran his man and put himself out of the play. Adams was apt to be turned in, and did not tackle as surely as he can. In the last part of the game, however, he did better work. Wadsworth has improved greatly in his game and tackled and followed the ball well. Jackson in the second half made...
...offensive work of the team in breaking up the wedge was fairly good at the centre, though gains were occasionally made at that point. The most substantial gains for the second eleven were made by White who broke through the line of forwards more than once and got clear of all the rushers. Trafford and Corbett were both weak in their tackling and White got by both of them once and made a touch down after a long run. The 'varsity scored on the second eleven three times...
...Comedy, which, even approximately, shall produce the effect of the original. Since the form of the translation must differ in the effect it produces from the original, is it better to use an English metre or English prose? Professor Norton has judged that the literal prose version which the clear and simple verse of Dante allows, gives a fuller sense of the poem than can blank verse; for in using blank verse the translator is often forced into awkward inversions and tempted to elaborate displays of rhetoric...
...series of notes run through the book and explain such difficult passages as are necessary to a clear understanding of the poem's meaning...