Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that of the Devil visiting "his nice little farm the earth to see how his stock gets on," in which it is taken for granted that the earth, especially England, and still more especially the individual objects of the writer's personal dislike, belong to the Devil without any kind of doubt. He is also found in other poems of this age. He appears in Byron's "Vision of Judgment," he carries off Shelley's "Peter Bell," and makes himself other-wise useful. But he shows little originality in his deviltry...
...knoll on which the house of President Eliot stands has been converted into a kind of toboggan slide by the Cambridge juveniles...
After spending a delightful afternoon,- for callers, and especially Harvard callers, are not received in the evening-the visitor must tear himself away, thanking the Lasell authorities for their kind care over him in so cautiously seeing that he is far away before the damp chilly evening air has set in. He leaves Auburndale and goes happily home, rejoicing in his opportunity, and saying, "Long live Lasell...
...hundred yards, and the "long race," which was from a mile and a half to three miles. With such soft ground, the strain on the runners must have been fearful, and it was no uncommon thing for them to faint when they reached the end. No trickery of any kind was allowed, as false starts...
...taught in Greece. The first consisting of a simple throw, and in which no wrestling on the ground was allowed. The second was where the fighting continued on the ground and in which everything was allowed, as strangling, or breaking the joints of one's opponent. In the first kind, three falls meant defeat. This was the only form which was used in the Pentathlon. Boxing was considered a professional sport, and did not enter into the games. They used no gloves, but the hands were bound up in strips of leather, which strengthened the hand and broke the force...