Word: lameing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only about twenty minutes of practice. Most of the time the second eleven had the ball. The defense of the first was very good considering that both Mackie and Acton were laid off, the former on account of the death of a relative, the latter because of a lame back. Wilson and Laimbeer took their places. The first held the ball long enough to make one touchdown, though the sharp work of the second made this not the easiest task in the world. Waters played a while in good form. Gonterman on the second made the best...
Waters has a lame foot, Gray's ankle is still very weak, and Brewer is still in generally poor condition. This accounts for the fact that the interference was not so good as usual, there being none of the old backs on either eleven, with the single exception of Corbett...
McCrea is the most promising candidate for Sanford's place, although Beard and Jenkins are possibilities. Butter-worth has been laid off for a few days with water on the elbow and Graves is still too lame to play and it is doubtful if he plays Saturday...
...mile bicycle race G. D. Pratt of Amherst reduced the record from 6 m. 51 sec., to 6 m. 22 4-5 sec. N. D. Alexander of Amherst broke the record for putting the shot with a distance of 38 ft. 3 1-2 inches. N. T. Abbott, a lame athlete from Dartmouth, won the running high jump with the bar at a height of 5 ft. 9 in., thus breaking the record by half an inch...
...critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems, whose marriage with another later saddened his life but inspired his genius...