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Word: half (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...close of second half-hour, Harvard three goals and three touch-downs; Yale nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT- BALL. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...close of third half-hour, Harvard four goals and four touch-downs; Yale nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT- BALL. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

Game at close of first half-hour, Harvard two goals and one touch-down; Yale nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOT- BALL. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...most of our public associations are constituted, an executive committee of half a dozen members have full power to decide almost every question that can arise. Even when they do appeal to the College for instruction, men are afraid to open a discussion, and motions are generally passed with only a few words said in their support, - passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...love you for the half-drawn sigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A FLIRT. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

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