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Word: hand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true to a certain extent; they are a hardier race beyond a doubt; but, on the other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling rain happens to be falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes as is ours, but it is proverbially noted for its wet days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS AT OXFORD. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

Untouched by any stranger hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVER FAITHFUL. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...brace up, then, and come forward to take the crew and the nine by the hand, and thank them for all they have done for us; tell them we admire them, and are proud of them, and are watching them; and let us follow them right through the year with our cordial support and encouragement, and help these splendid representatives of ours to keep the championship they have won, right here with old Harvard, where it belongs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW WE TREAT OUR CHAMPIONS. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...this plan can be carried out, either at once or in the spring, there is every reason to believe that we can place boating on a firm footing, put an end to its hand-to-mouth struggle for existence, and arouse for it some such steady interest and genuine liking as that which makes the formation of good crews so easy a matter in the English universities; and maybe we can have as good a time with rowing as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR BOATING PROSPECTS. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

...whisper, hand in hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

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