Word: grasping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to prevent the players from piling up, the following rule was adopted: "The ball shall be deemed dead when any portion of the person of the runner with the ball, except his hands or feet touch the ground when in the grasp of an opponent...
...illustrates the excellent opportunities that present themselves to the scholar today in the world of commerce. There never was a time in history so good as the present for the work of the well-trained man, the man who has the ability to seize things as they are, to grasp a complicated situation, and act accordingly. The only man who can do this is the true scholar...
...scholar does not see fit to become a business man, he can help the business world by seeing it in the proper light, and by helping the public to a better grasp of the situation, through clean criticism...
...other hand, the game showed that the Harvard team has rare offensive strength. A swifter attack than that shown through much of the game has seldom been attained by a Harvard eleven. It must be admitted, however, that the failure to grasp opportunities to score is so far from exceptional that evidence of this defect has come to seem almost meritable in each and every game; the game with Pennsylvania was no exception to this generality...
Here often the Fifties and Sixties will praise To new fledged classes "the good old days;" And Eighties and Nineties will meet to inspire The recreant present with old time fire. Here friends-old friends-will make their tryst And grasp once more dear comrade's fist. They'll laugh once more at the ancient jest; Retell the stories that stand Time's test. They'll dust off the score of forgotten games, Evoke old crews of the Charles and the Thames, Repeople the Delta, and Jarvis and Holmes With heroes of battles quite equal to Rome's. Revive...