Word: grants
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Ulysses Grant is heard to want...
...down. Leeds punted the ball out from the touch-line to Hall, who tried for a goal but failed to obtain it, he having punted the ball over instead of kicking it. In this inning Wetherbee and Cate made some fine runs, and there was some pretty dodging by Grant. About two minutes before the end of the half-hour, Leeds made a long run, and succeeded in passing the ball to Curtis, who obtained a touch-down between the goal-posts. Seamans kicked the ball over the goal...
Captain of the Foot-Ball Eleven, P. Grant; Secretary, L. Cushing...
...have already said too much and yet I have a practical plan for the improvement of murders to propose, and some remarks to make on the proper place for a murder. Gentlemen of the Magenta, you must grant me another audience at some future time; at present I will only add that I have on hand two finished designs, which I shall be happy to communicate to any worthy person. The first is for the killing of a venerable gentleman, high in position, universally respected and disliked. The other has in view the murder of a flute-player. The first...
...Harrison, Taylor, Lincoln, and Grant were, Mr. Bratt, with culpable negligence, does not tell; but we know that every election was a matter of very great expense, as it involved the purchase of thousands of votes, each of which cost fifteen cents in American money, and since, in the statement last quoted, Mr. Bratt intimates that he bore a portion of the election expenses himself, he could not have been a poor...