Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...near to that as possible. They usually wore what, in the present parlance of the prize ring, would be termed "bard" gloves, often with the addition of brass knuckles. The wrestling was correspondingly rough, and, in regard to the running, we have often heard of the men who dropped dead at the end of their race. The Greeks used to run at an alarming speed. As far as we can tell from the records, they made their longest run, three miles, in about ten minutes, and they were accustomed to make a running jump, with dumb-bells, off a spring...
...yesterday afternoon to catch a first glimpse of the crews on the water. Although the seniors and juniors both did a little rowing Tuesday, still yesterday marked the first appearance of all the crews together and may be regarded as the beginning of the boating season. The tide was dead low before the crews were ready to start, making the launching of the boats quite difficult; this with the coldness of the weather and sharpness of the wind shortened the rows somewhat and made the men quite willing to get back to a warm room. Both pair-oars were...
...start. The Cambridge crew were fifty pounds heavier than Oxford, but the latter pulled in better form, rowing forty to the minute from start to finish. The race ended in a snow storm. This makes the record of victories 22 to 17 in favor of Oxford, and one "dead heat...
...learned professor once gave the following illustration of his thesis: "The velocity of sound, compared with that of light, is so little that, for instance, if you should be shot, you would not hear the sound until you had been dead some time...
...Coumoundouros, the well known Greek statesman, is dead...