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Word: firm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...firm, equitable and dignified position of Harvard in all athletic matters of recent years offers a telling argument in favor of having a similar body in control of athletics at Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Committee for U. of P. | 10/30/1895 | See Source »

...second half was easy for Harvard. Brown did not make any good showing this half except when Harvard would get the ball near the goal line. Then Brown held firm and forced Harvard to punt on two or three occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, 26; BROWN, 6. | 10/21/1895 | See Source »

Until recently he was employed as clerk in a law office at 140 Nassau street, but went to another firm in the neighborhood of Wall street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBITUARY. | 10/14/1895 | See Source »

...just presented to the Botanical Museum an interesting specimen of the flowering cluster of cocoanut, collected by him this summer in Jamaica. On the cluster which is still tightly packed inits firm sheath, there are many unopened buds, a few blossoms widely open, and some young fruits no larger than horse-chestnuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cocoanut in Flower. | 10/5/1895 | See Source »

...course the ball was Harvard's. Brewer punted over 30 yards. Then Harvard stood firm for three times in succession, and secured the ball on downs. Brewer and Wrightington were just beginning to get in good rushes when Dunlop fumbled, and Lakeman received the ball. A punt to Brewer brought the ball back to Harvard's 30 yard line. Wrightington ran 15 yards round Lakeman, and both he and Brewer were making successive rushes of five yards apiece when time was called with the ball only a short distance into Dartmouth's territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DISAPPOINTMENT. | 9/30/1895 | See Source »

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