Word: holding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...literary and debating society, the Idler Club, of the Annex will hold an "at home" on Friday afternoon...
There are many games and athletic exercises that are practised now which although considered modern inventions were in a different form in use among the ancients. Even lawn tennis, the most fashionable of them all, and the one which more than any other seems to have taken a permanent hold on the people of this country, appears to be merely a variation of a form of ball played by the Romans; one great difference being that with them the ball had always to be returned before it struck the ground - in fact, "volleyed." There is no very definite description...
...that fewer persons took part in it, and that they stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other the rope was passed over an upper branch of a tree, or through a hole in a high post, and the competitors took hold of the rope, with their backs to the tree, and tried to pull up the opposite side...
...always, fought continuously until one of the combatants gave in, "rounds" apparently not being to their taste. But although there seems to have been this savagery about the contests, it by no means follows that a "scientific boxer" of the present day would not be able to hold his own in one, if a trial were possible...
...England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter academy will hold its second annual banquet to-morrow evening at the Vendome Hotel...