Word: fill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...system of secret entries is also open to criticism. When the entries were public, if any event did not "fill," those who were interested in making the meeting a success could persuade persons competent to enter to do so before the entries closed, and thus insure an interesting meeting. The failure of the meeting of March 8 was, in part at least, due to the fact that the entries were secret. One, and probably two, of the events which failed to occur would have taken place had the entries been public. The only reason for keeping the entries secret...
NOTWITHSTANDING a report in the Advocate that there were "only three entries for the second meeting," the Gymnasium was fairly well filled, and those present were able to see a much better exhibition than the preceding. Altogether there were fifteen - not three - entries; but it was evident that several of those who entered had not given much time to training, and presented themselves merely to fill up. Although this is better than no entries at all, it certainly does not tend to raise the standard of our records, which, after all, is - or rather ought to be - the ambition...
...true that these "Falsehoods of the Fortnight" are put in to fill out the Brevity column...
...with balmy odors fill...
...walls were photographs of college athletes, some of whom I recognized. "But who are these?" said I, pointing to a group of men of unmistakably Hibernian proclivities. "That's the last year's Harvard nine. When Ernst left, we were unable to fill his place from the College, so we hired Tommy Bond to come in as special student. Since that, our whole nine has become professional. "That fellow," pointing to a particularly villanous-looking specimen of the plug ugly, "is Mike Rooney the shortstop." I waited to hear no more, but turned and left the building. What...