Word: drag
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...word, the rope was released, and they sprang back with a jump, heaving all together. Whichever team had the most perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks were constantly devised to throw the opposite team off its balance and drag them across; these pulls were said to be as exciting as the severest pulls to-day, but a much greater element of luck entered into them...
...college at the present time has no department which is a drag upon it financially, with the exception of the Dental and Veterinary Schools...
...Harvard freshmen upon the south benches, and a corporal's guard of upperclassmen, Holmes Field would have been untenanted yesterday afternoon. The game which attracted this small audience was uninteresting enough. The fielding was not bad, but the utter lack of anything like respectable batting made the innings drag along slowly...
...competing will please hand their names to the directors as soon as possible, together with the events they intend to enter, that an open eye may be kept on them and some system of training prepared. It is folly for us to expect to do much, but let us drag out of this slough of despond instantly. For the benefit of those who may be inclined to compete, we add a table of times that must be made before any person can hope to find his name on the list of fortunate aspirants: one-mile run, 5 minutes; one-half...
...matters of the day. But our call for expressions of opinion has met with a very unsatisfactory response. One of our correspondents, in the CRIMSON for March 29 exclaims: "Why publish disquisitions in your columns on the evils of cribbing and the status of that art at Harvard? Why drag this disgusting subject to the light, and care fully analyze it and pick it to pieces, any more than the subject of thievery or drunkenness?" With this writer we have no sympathy. We would ask him, what special bearing the subject of thievery or drunkenness has on the value...