Word: exploit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew away the following summer, if present indications can be relied upon. A number of men are already in hard training in the gymnasium, an effort has been made and successfully, to enlist the interest of upper class-men, and everything promises well for the undertaking." Cornell's last exploit with a university crew seems to have been enough to last her several years, and now the attention of the college is centred on the freshmen...
...Secretary Blaine's spirited exploit in the Panama canal affair, says the Nation, "resembles the quarrel and separation of the young couple, immediately after the birth of their first boy, over the question as to whether he should go to Yale or Harvard." The canal...