Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer of the article in yesterday's CRIMSON either misrepresented the lecturer from whom he got his "facts" or else that learned gentleman was sadly in error...
...material marble, to supersede the wooden, chryselephantine, and bronze images of earlier ages. Marble, with its new qualities, made a distinct impression on the development of the artistic composition of sculpture. Improvements in the art of modelling with clay, the introduction from Samos of bronze castings, whereby the metal got the direct impress of the modeller's hand, the inevitable influence of painting and architecture on sculptural work are to be counted as primary causes of the new era of development...
...street wall behind the ropes. The blue uniforms of the Lowells, and the red of the Harvard's made a striking contrast on the field. The crowd favored the Lowells, hooting and cheering, and on one occasion holding a hit to centre field "until the striker and one man got home." Harvard was badly rattled during the first four innings. During the last five, however, they turned the tables on their opponents, scoring twenty-five times to their twelve; but the game was lost, and the Harvard contingent went home very quietly and sadly. Lowell, 37; Harvard...
...while the anchor, coming rapidly forward, makes a new knot; and all four go back with a heave. The knot is either one or two wraps, though the single wrap is much quicker to use. The double wrap is used when one team desires to hold what it has got, and does wish the knot to slip. The knot is made with the right hand and held in place by the left; if made too far from the body it is of no advantage, as all the slack is lost on the next heave. When one anchor heaves, the other...
...meat croquettes (vulgarly called by some hash), are of an inferior qualiand the milk is growing thinner and thinner. One of the chaps got off quite a joke on it the other day. He said that the cow that gave that milk must have been suffering with the disease known as water on the brain. He was immediately carried from the table on the shoulders of the crowd and also received the election as humorous editor of the Lampoon...