Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, that high license is preferable to prohibition, as a method of dealing with intemperance...
...flush of manhood have managed to dispose of sixty or seventy mugs of beer in a single evening, and who have therefore borne for a year the proud title of "Beer King" of Heidelberg? Tobacco, too, must claim its due share of our attention. This roof above us is high, the hall is vast, the space seems limitless. Is it possible for us to fill it all with tobacco smoke? Yea, verily: or ever the morrow's sun. shall rise this vast space shall be packed with dense smoke as with a tangible substance, so that from the flattest-sprawled...
...RUNNING HIGH JUMP.Clark, '87, scratch; Sturgis, '90, 8 inches; Codman, '90, 9 inches; Paul, '88, 10 inches; Lothrop, '90, 10 inches; Alexander, '90, 12 inches. This event was won by Alexander with an actual jump of 4 feet 9 1-2 inches, with Sturgis second, with a jump of 5 feet 1-4 inch. Clark failed to jump more than 5 feet 6 1 4 inches...
...Running high jump. - 1, Clark, '87, scratch; 2, Sturgis, '90, 8 inches; 3, Codman, '90, 9 inches; 4, Paul, '88, 10 inches; 5, Lothrop, '90, 10 inches; 6, Alexander, '90, 12 inches...
...half-backs have a great fondness for letting the ball bounce before they catch it, instead of taking it on the fly, a proceeding which costs them much time and ground. They still fumble a great deal and do not judge a high punt well, especially if there is any wind. They are very leisurely about getting under way when they start to run, and they do not back up each other. None of the backs are remarkable for the accuracy of their drop kicks in a game; though Porter has once kicked a goal from the field. In spite...