Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...deliberation the prize was awarded to Mr. Brett. The standing high-jump was next in order, and was well contested by Messrs. Hall, '76, Latham, '77, and Martin, '77. Mr. Hall fell out first, and Messrs. Latham and Martin both cleared the rope at four feet seven and a half inches. As neither of the contestants could jump any higher, a tie was declared, and the cup was awarded to Mr. Latham, as he had given his opponent two extra trials. The jumping was exciting, and was much applauded...
...pleasure that would have been taken in the boxing and wrestling was lost because they came at the hour of lunch. Many left before they began, and the others who remained seemed impatient and eager for the end. If to-morrow's programme is divided, and only half of it given, the change will be agreeable to spectators...
Another thing which accounts for the unpopularity of much of our poetry is its very affected vocabulary. About one half the sonnets begin with "O" or "Thou," and it is a chance if the author can get through without using "lush," or mentioning the nightingale; a bird rarely seen or heard, and so very useful, since imagination fills up the blank as the context requires.* What "lush" means it would be hard to say, and as for the average "O," it reminds one of the "indeed" or our ante-collegiate (?) days. If you cannot write poetry naturally, you had better...
...away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode. To the left is the road along which the British dragged their cannon after firing a random shot at the retreating hero. This ball, I was informed, fell on the road, and with half-spent force was rolling along, when a farmer spied it, and, thinking it might be running away from somebody, put out his foot to arrest it; the mass X velocity was too much for the farmer; the ball continued on in the "even tenor of its ways" with about...
...same time aroused the jealousy of her daughters by fascinating all the men, and, working upon their passions, she induced them to poison their fathers at a great feast. The old savages having been thus destroyed, the gods made two canoes. In one of these they carried half the women over to the men; in the other they carried half the men over to the women. They then presented the renovated race with a code of laws, and, getting into a third canoe, they floated away from sight...