Word: drop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mott Haven rules, and at the end of that time the team, which has the ribbon on its side, is declared the winner. It is plain that the great strength of the team lies in its power of endurance, and the regularity with which the members heave and drop together. The position of anchor requires a great deal of tact and skill, especially in taking up the rope as the team comes up after a pull. An anchor may also materially help his team by practising various artifices to deceive the other team, as apparently rising and taking...
...better appreciate the difficulties which beset our cotemporaries, or more readily pardon their errors, than ourselves. We feel constrained, however, to remind our friends of the Echo that no college paper can achieve success without hard work on the part of all connected with it. To drop a miscellaneous assortment of items into a hopper can hardly be called editing a paper, in the strict sense of the word. It is, we think, the general opinion that the Echo has never been all that a Harvard daily should be, nor yet all it at one time gave promise of becoming...
...stars drop like dust...
...should you by chance drop a smile...
...learned 'tis wise to drop such terrorizing talk...