Word: firm
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Class Day Committee has awarded the contract for caps and gowns for this year to Messrs. Cotrell & Leonard of Albany, N. Y. This is the only firm officially recognized by the Committee...
...best of the year. The regular players were in the game for the first time for over a week and showed what they could do when playing together. The plays were run off with a great deal more precision than at any time before, the line held unusually firm, and the whole team got into every play in such a way that the second eleven was powerless to stop them...
...made on a 35 yard run by Putnam, and the other on a run of 30 yards by Kernan. The latter also made a 50 yard run which took the ball to the 5 yard line. The effort was of little use, however, for the second team held firm and was given the ball on downs. The lineups of the two teams were: FIRST ELEVEN. SECOND ELEVEN. Mills, l.e. r.e., Clothier Shea, l.t. r.t., Mason Marshall, l.g. r.g., Whitwell Sugden, Force, c. c., Lyon, Sugden Barnard, r.g. l.g., Wilder Knowlton, r.t. l.t., Dodge Bowditch, r.e. l.e., Littig, Macdonald Marshall...
...Society have to be brought or defended in the individual name of some one of the officers, a thing which is certainly distasteful and might prove seriously unpleasant to him, whereas after incorporation actions can be undertaken by the corporate designation; and incorporation would create a close, firm, responsible, and effective body to have control of the Society's affairs, doing away with the present possibility of loose dealings in leases, notes, etc. These three benefits I shall hereafter designate as the corporate advantages...
...Orange Free State and England promptly seized it. Gold was found in the Transvaal and the country was immediately overrun with foreigners. Everything was done by the Boers to keep peace with them, but when the freedom granted by England in 1884 was threatened the Boers stood firm and war was the result...