Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seat at the table before any one else. There does not seem to be anything to eat. I ask one of the waiters why the bell rang when dinner was not ready. He smiles insolently and replies, "That was the first bell, sir; dinner-bell will ring in half an hour." I go up on deck again, and reflect upon the stupidity of the lower classes, especially waiters. The bona-fite dinner-bell rings at four. Splendid dinner. I eat two plates of soup, three pieces of roast-beef, two of mutton, three or four pieces of pudding, a couple...
...clock, Friday afternoon, October 23. These contests will be as follows: one hundred yard running race, high jump, one mile running race, running long jump, hurdle race of one hundred and twenty yards over ten hurdles, throwing a base-ball, two mile running race, consolation race of one half mile, three-legged race, and three mile walking race. The Committee also decided that five minutes shall intervene between each contest, that all contestants must be on hand when their race is called, that only members of the association can take part in the contests, and that entries must be made...
...half a murder...
...some force is required to get them forward, and he has no time to begin the stroke properly, but must make a wild grab at the water. Moreover, he is never in a position where he can draw a good, full breath, but is obliged to row with lungs half inflated, as fatal an error as could be made. Care should also be taken that no man gets forward too soon, as he has, in that case, to wait at full stretch till the others are forward, and all the air has gone from his lungs. If a man does...
...separated by even a single place, it is probable a fair test of superiority might have been obtained. The four crews between whom the race really lay - Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan - soon after the start drew ahead, and the order named was that of the first mile and a half. Harvard had been steadily drawing up on Columbia, until, at the mile and a half point, she had lapped the Columbia boat. According to the account of our crew, Yale, who had meanwhile made several attempts to pass Harvard, which put the Harvard rudder in great danger of being disabled...