Word: lets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LET.- 26 Conant Hall. Southeast corner room...
...pounds and held it with one arm perpendicularly above his head. After a short rest he put up the same bell weighted to 211 pounds. On this trial, however, although the bell was put up perpendicularly with one arm, Rood, in straightening his body, lost his balance and let the ball fall. The terms of the game say nothing about the straightening of the body, but it has been customary to get to an upright position. It is thought, however, that the latter record will stand. The performance was done in public and was testified to by over a dozen...
...LET.- 26 Conant Hall. Southeast corner room...
...policy of the Class Day Committee has been, ever since a change of plans was necessary in the Tree exercises, to see what changes the Corporation would insist on, and, then, to submit the new form of exercises to the class and let them choose it or some other plan...
...even if prompted by more generous motives, they would be unable to get out through the impenetrable mass of men behind them. Each man in the crowed would be so tightly wedged in between four men, before, behind, right and left, that however willing he should be to let the man who had got flowers pass out, he would be absolutely unable to move. This scene would be very flat and uninteresting to the spectators, as there would be nothing to see but a black mass with a slight swaying motion perhaps. It would be unsatisfactory to the men participating...