Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...shape four years, and then look better than a new cheap one. The Ulster is perhaps the best garment to get cheap, as it is only worn nights or stormy days, or for travelling, and a good one can be bought ready-made if you do not mind looking like a car driver. The finest custom houses show you special patterns which are very swell, though perhaps not economical...
Beautiful runs by Dunlop and Wrightton brought the teams to the 30 yard line. Mackie tore through the centre for 5 yards, and Brewer went like a shot round the end for 10 yards more. The crowd went wild over this wonderful work...
...cheering and again in the fact that the sections were so large that the leaders could not make themselves heard. But even admitting this the men who could hear the leaders did not respond with any sort of heartiness. Only when Harvard made some remarkable play did anything like enthusiasm show itself. At the very time when the team needed encouragement, no encouragement was given. There seems, in fact, to be a mistaken idea of the purpose of cheering. It is popularly considered as simply a form of applause. This is a wrong impression-it is more than applause...
...half. Brilliant individual work by Butterworth and Thorne was admirably combined with almost perfect team play; so perfect, in fact, that the few cases in which Harvard was individually supperior to Yale in the line, did not affect the result to any great extent. There was the same elock-like regularity in their movements and wonderful steadiness under all conditions which is one of the striking features of Yale elevens. The fierce, sudden onslaughts upon the line made particularly by Butterworth, although also by Thorne with fine effect, were irresistible, and to this persistent bucking of the line...
Armstrong broke from the line and carried the ball to the 15 yard line. Two rushes were made with little success. Thorne then carried the ball to the 10 yard line. It looked like a touch-down...