Word: ely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Toll the bell for the Eli's knell...
...exception-we have come back beaten. But we have not been utterly cast down. Oh no,- "If A. hadn't fumbled the ball on the five yard line, or if B. hadn't slipped just as he had a clear field, or if C. had only got by that Eli fullback, we'd have had 'em on the run. As it is they deserve lots of credit for the game they put up." Did they play against twenty men then, or some tremendous odds? No, they played against eleven men lighter than themselves...
Professor Eli Whitney Blake, until the close of the last college year Hazard professor of physics at Brown University, died at Hampton, Conn., Tuesday, aged fifty-nine years. He was born in New Haven, his father being the well known inventor of the same name, was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied chemistry and physics in the universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Berlin, and returning to this country was named professor of chemistry and physics in the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College. He was afterwards professor of physics and mechanic arts at Cornell University; acting professor of physics...
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