Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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But a grand stand to cost over $14,000 is preposterous. The committee having the supervision of the present plans must reduce them to reasonable limits. If that is impossible, let them reject the present plans entirely and employ an architect to draw new plans, the execution of which shall...
Commenting on the styles of rowing shown by the Oxford and Cambridge crews in their recent annual races on the Thames river, London, the London Sportsman says: "The Cantabs this year seemed to have dropped back into that light and ineffective style which many people thought they had abandoned. We...
The last number of the Lampoon is one of the best that has been published, some of the drawings reminding one of Life in style and execution.
For the carriage of the body and the arms, very few directions suffice; but it often takes months to develop the muscles necessary for a proper execution of the directions. The body should swing forward and back with a hip, and not a back movement. Eight years ago Harvard crews...
How differently are some things done in England than in this country. In Oxford the following quaint old custom prevails: Every St. Scholastica's day the Mayor and sixty-two townsmen, specially chosen, offer at St. Mary's Church sixty-three pence, in memory of sixty-three "innocent scholars," barbarously...