Word: greate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Christmas day, the Earl of Foix, according to his usual custom, held a great feast, and after dyner he deperted out of the hall, and went up into a galarye of twenty-four stayres of heyght. It being exceedingly cold the Earl complained that the fire was not large enough, when a person named Ervalton of Spayne, went down stayers, and beneth in the court he saw a great many of asses laden with woode to serve the house, that he went and tooke one of the greatest asses with al the woode, and layde him on hys back...
...among the ancients. Even lawn tennis, the most fashionable of them all, and the one which more than any other seems to have taken a permanent hold on the people of this country, appears to be merely a variation of a form of ball played by the Romans; one great difference being that with them the ball had always to be returned before it struck the ground - in fact, "volleyed." There is no very definite description of it, but it would seem that, although there was no actual net as now, there was practically an imaginary...
...tennis flannel and English serge pants, long and short, and a large assortment of tennis and gymnasium shoes. French fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc I make a specially of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...
...tennis flannel and English serge pants, long and short, and a large assortment of tennis and gymnasium shoes. French fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...
...movement on the part of the club has been largely suggested by the number of young men coming into the club, who, it was thought, would appreciate club-rooms where they might gather for social purposes. For graduates of Harvard living out of town it will also prove a great convenience, furnishing a place for them to drop in during their vitits to the city. Such non resident members are now on roll from the East and West as far as Dakota. With all the improvements, it has been determined to keep the dues low so that the club...