Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...monthly meeting of the Shooting Club took place on the Soldiers' Field yesterday afternoon and the postponed match for the Founders Cup was shot off. Owing to the very high wind and coldness of the day, shooting was very difficult and in consequence the score are unusually low. Each man shot at fifteen birds and the six best scores are as follows...
...improve delivery there must be training to improve spontaneity. This is what makes the cultivation of delivery so difficult. Tones and actions are the music of speech; words give you the idea, but tones and actions give the feeling. A man who presents bare facts without feeling makes no impression...
...that never attempts anything and his life is one long mistake. Creeds are of the utmost value out do not be bound by creeds of iron. They are like bands that encircle the growing tree. Either the tree will burst them or the growing wood will make it difficult for man to find them. So with iron creeds. They will be burst, or hidden until an ecclesiastical trial brings them to light Press forward to do better work than your fathers, and, to five better lives than your fathers did, to leave the world better than your fathers...
...that they showed their superiority to the Worcester men and by repeated gains around the ends and by shoving the centre they brought the ball within twenty yards of Worcester's goal. Jackson then carried it over after making a beautiful run. Whitman tried to kick a very difficult goal nearly thirty yards back and just barely missed it. Score 20-10. Time was soon called with the ball in the middle of the field...
Jarvis field was very slippery yesterday afternoon, and made respectable playing difficult. Vail, who is usually left guard on he 'varsity, was laid off for a slight injury to his knee. Two other men were hurt in the practice, Miller and who collided heavily. The result was a bad cut on the head for Miller, and a shock that stunned Blagden for some time. Blagden was all right again last night, and Miller doing well this morning...