Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pole vaulting, were decidedly tedious. The success that Harvard's representatives won should urge our athletic men to fresh exertions, and the apparent walk-overs in the mile-run and in several other contests should instil in them the idea of training next winter for prizes easily within their grasp...
...answer this question in the affirmative without the slightest hesitation. The first indications were by no means promising, however, and the youthful Keltic mind did not seem to grasp the true spirit of the reform. Many strange inconsistencies were noticed at first. For instance, a small boy who saluted an elderly gentleman with much politeness saw nothing inappropriate, when beyond the reach of the gentleman's cane, in addressing him in terms more familiar than complimentary; a youth whose manners were very winning, and who had even attained some degree of perfection in tying a cravat, was in the constant...
...deinotherium's grasp...
...with their payments, and by such help enable us to close the boating season with the club not only free from any debt, but with a balance in its treasury for another year's beginning. This is a position perhaps never held before, but now very easily within its grasp...
...Memorial Hall is the place where the students eat. I enjoyed seeing this exquisite structure very much, but being, as you know, nearsighted, failed to grasp its full beauties. A pleasant young man showed me over the Hall. The Bills of Fare on notable occasions are engraved on slabs and put up on the walls; I tried to read these, but my eyes were not strong enough...