Word: fall
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...master of the art can conceive the astonishing powers it gives. When I first saw it I could not believe that if I were really "turned loose," and avoided conventional methods I could not at least make a contest. I was completely undeceived. "Turning loose" merely made the greater fall. Never have I experienced such a feeling of utter helplessness as I did in trying to avoid being thrown, and that is the experience not only of untrained foreigners in Japan, but of skillful wrestlers who have encountered the Japanese...
...time College opens next fall, the work of alteration will have been completed. Every room in both Hollis and Stoughton will have hot water heating apparatus, and will also be provided with hot and cold running water. On each floor in both entries, occupying the present bed-room space at the ends of the halls, there will be a set of showers and lavatories, and porcelain bathtubs are to be placed in the basements...
...intercollegiate tennis championship will be held at the Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa., on October 5. The university should be well represented, as the following members of this year's team will return to college next fall: B. S. Prentice '05, J. I. B. Larned '05, R. N. Smither '06, and H. H. Whitman '06, who was ineligible to play on the team this year. Team matches with Yale, Princeton and Columbia have already been arranged for next spring...
...completion of the bridge. One hundred and twenty thousand dollars is the limit of total expenditure, which is to be divided equally between both cities. The act took effect upon its passage, and work on the bridge will begin as soon as possible, and should be completed by next fall...
Toronto on Monday defeated the Crescent Athletic Club at Bay Ridge by a score of 10 to 3. The team will leave on the Fall River boat tonight to play Swarthmore tomorrow and the University of Pennsylvania Friday...