Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hallowell got it on the first play by breaking through. At this point Harvard played in grand style. Hayes made six yards on a centre play which Gonterman followed with five more. An end play netted Hayes seven yards and then Gonterman carried it over. The goal was a difficult one, but Captain Brewer kicked it, and the score...
...present law is difficult of execution.- (a) Against the wishes of the majority of the New York voters: Forum XX, 211 (Oct., 1895); Nat. LX, 67; Boston Herald, Sept. 29, Editorial.- (b) No police equal to the task: Nat. LX. 67; Forum XX, 211.- (c) Needless expense of time and money...
...close of the first week of training of the candidates for the Yale football eleven there is a good deal of demoralization in the team, With only two members of last year's team back, Captain Thorne finds it very difficult to get anything like team work out of the eleven. He has been handicapped, too, by several accidents: Jerrems bruising his knee badly, Sage, a promising candidate for end rush, retiring with a dislocated collar bone during the first day's practice; DeWitt being prostrated by the heat the first day, and training easily since then; Murphy coming back...
...difficult to make any prediction as to the result of the game. If the Harvard team plays at its best, its chances are not unfavorable, though its record through the season has been much worse than Yale...
...yards it is difficult to make a prediction. E. Hollister of Harvard won the event at both the dual and intercollegiate games, in 1 min. 58 2/5 sec. and 2 min. respectively, and W. Greenhow of Oxford took it in 2 min. 4/5 sec., with his mate, F. Rathbone, second...