Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boat race was rowed yesterday, Oxford winning by three lengths, a totally unexpected result, as Cambridge was the favorite in betting circles, odds of 7 to 2 being offered on her before the start. The Cambridge crew were fifty pounds heavier than Oxford, but the latter pulled in better form, rowing forty to the minute from start to finish. The race ended in a snow storm. This makes the record of victories 22 to 17 in favor of Oxford, and one "dead heat...
...four he began, unaided, the study of Greek. From then until his eleventh year his only tutor was his mother. He entered Rugby at fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank. At eighteen he gained the Balliol scholarship, and, in spite of a year's illuess, carried off the Ireland scholarship, and took his degree, an old-fashioned "Double-First...
Considering the circumstances, the throw made by Mr. Follansbee in the putting the shot was an excellent one. As Mr. Follansbee throws in very good form there is considerable reason for expecting him to do good work on the grounds...
...proposed demonstration of the socialists in Paris yesterday took no form...
...making man's nature harmonize with morality, and this religious truth we can keep in mind, whatever else is doubtful. Dr. Royce closed the lecture by suggesting a few thoughts introductory to the further consideration of the religious aspect of external nature, outside of man, and this aspect will form the special topic of the third lecture...