Word: laying
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Perkins rowed for a time in a pair-oar with Sprague. This is the first work Perkins has done since he had to lay off on account of his strained side...
...Many men, like Mr. Warren in this morning's CRIMSON, have spoken up honestly, acknowledged our defeat, and sought the cause in our own defects. But I have also heard many who have tried in one way or another to excuse the result. There has been a tendency to lay great stress on the superior form of the Harvard speakers, on the better massing of their argument, and their more clever handling of evidence, and to ascribe their defeat to incomprehensible blindness on the part of the judges or even to some "trick" of the other side...
...were visible two or three things which are not to be found now. The old type of sonorous oratory has almost gone. In those days men thought they must speak in a sort of architectural way. There was something put upon the speech. It was not sure that everything lay in the speech itself...
...making the indoor practice as short as practicable will be a welcome innovation. The decision of the Corporation allowing baseball to be played on Holmes Field this year will also help the nine, both as regards its regular work, and from a financial standpoint. It would be impossible to lay out a really satisfactory diamond on Soldiers Field this spring; and even if it were the gate receipts would there be less than on Holmes Field, because Soldiers Field is not yet sufficiently easy of access. With the general supervision of the coaching in the hands...
...Board therefore votes to lay on the table the cases of those students against whom complaint has been made...