Word: footed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...north ferry, leaving near the foot of Hanover street, lands close by the works...
...movement is on foot at Princeton to introduce the game of Association football. A team has been formed of students in the Seminary, and several games have already been played...
...line. Dayton made a 10 yard advance. Horner was through on Dibblee's kick and blocked it and Johnson, for Pennsylvania, secured the ball. Oglesby was thrown for a loss and on the next kick Harvard gained the ball on the 25 yard line. With the ball within a foot of the boundary, Dibblee made a kick which went out of bounds two yards behind where it had been put in play and Pennsylvania thus regained in. After two failures to gain, Hedges was tried with the side kick and carried the ball to Harvard's 10 yard line. Abrams...
...recent fall handicap games of the University of Pennsylvania, a novelty was introduced in the shape of a two-mile steeple-chase. There were seven hurdles and a ten foot water jump...
Among the notable plants at the Botanic Garden this fall, one of the most interesting is the Skeleton-leaf plant (onvirandra fenestralis). It is a curious aquatic plant. The one at the Botanic Garden, which is a remarkably good specimen, is about a foot and a half high. The leaves, which are entirely submerged, are from 6 to 8 inches long and about two inches wide. There is nothing to them but the skeleton, formed by a coarse net work of the veins. The plant is a native of Madagascar...