Word: lay
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening Prof. Charles S. Smith finished his interesting course of lectures on Icelandic Saga, by treating of Old Norse Poetry. The interest of the lecture lay chiefly in the recitation of portions of poems both in the original and translated; but a summary of some of the poems may be interesting as showing their character...
...worked as hard as men ever worked and they accomplished all that men could be expected to accomplish under such discouraging conditions. No one has anything but praise for the men who made up the eleven. They played as well as they knew how to play. The whole trouble lay in the fact that they have not been taught how to play the game as it is played today. In both individual and team play they acted like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that...
...meeting of the A. A. U. in New York last Monday it was decided to lay on the table until the next meeting Cary's claims for records of 9 1-2 and 9 3-4 seconds in the 100 yds. dash...
...warrant some effort at securing better rates for them. There is little doubt but that the railroad can be induced to issue a round trip ticket, to be good perhaps from Friday until Tuesday, at much less than the regular fares. All that is needed is for someone to lay the matter before the railroad - a task that in consideration of the number to be benefited, the foot ball management might well take upon itself...
...team is light and not yet shaken together but quarter-back Wrenn kept the play fast and hard and in this the secret of the good score lay. The blocking off was fair, the worst tendency being for the blocker to get in the hole himself instead of making it wider...