Word: edicts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...edict has gone forth to lower the net in lawn tennis, and that for the future, in single matches, the correct height of the net will be three feet six inches at the post and three feet at the centre. The new rule will be adopted in the contest for the championship at Wimbledon. It seems a very great pity that so many alterations are made in the game. The end will be to spoil it. This lowering of the net was not at all desirable. The height kept down the experiments in overhand serving. - [London Court Journal...
...length the storm, which had been so long gathering, burst. The edict of the president and his wife went forth, commanding the two offenders to appear before them; and grimly they awaited the arrival...
...affair. But the doubt exists no longer. The Yale papers stand convicted before the college world of a breach of courtesy toward an exchange whose merits would seem to entitle it to the highest consideration. Because "Smintheus" had satirized the Record in the Acta's columns, the edict of Yale's wrath was pronounced against it. We regret that "Smintheus" should have indulged in personalities. But before we even settle the justifiability of the satire that thus uncorked the editorial spleen, let us ask if the Record's and the Courant's attitude toward "Smintheus" has been pleasant or gentlemanly...