Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fine, but the track was in poor condition. In the first event of the day, the mile handicap, there were twenty starters; on the third lap eight of these fell in a heap, but for tunately no one was badly hurt...
...baser tendencies of the Unversity. He fancies he has cleared himself by this lightly written phrase. In truth he has played the part of a mole. Without a glance at the fair structure which Harvard men have built in their prosperity, he has dug his way into a heap of the veriest rubbish and then blinded by the dust in his eyes, he has yielded to his distorted imagination and has called his work an accurate description of what he has found. Were every statement he has seen fit to make a complete truth-we deny this with...
...proposition of "Bob" Cook that Yale, who is now at the top of the heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard...
...tries to get the ball nearer our line and the fourth time Watkinson tries for a goal from the field, but fails. Beecher gets the ball from Holden's kick, and Holden's ankle is hurt; Sears takes his place. Watkinson fumbles the ball and goes down in a heap. He kicks to our five-yard line. Peabody returns the ball to Morrison and Watkinson makes an unsuccessful try for goal from a place kick at the forty yard line. Boyden makes ten yards, but rushes by Remington and Boyden do not advance the ball. Peabody kicks and Beecher gets...
...loss of time, men take it into their heads to leave the books lying about the tables promiscuously after using them. It is tantalizing in the extreme to have men continually picking up the books to see their titles and then throw them down and rummage about in another heap. All this annoyance might be avoided if every man would make it a point to replace the volumes on the shelves and in their right places...