Word: mane
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Park Theatre-Mane Wainwright, in Twelfth Night...
...Harvard's goal and Bovaird getting the ball rushed over the line and made the fourth touchdown for Princeton. Goal. Score 18 to 0. After the ball was put in play, Sears made a long rush and was downed close to Princeton's goal. Davis then broke through and mane the only touchdown for Harvard; goal was kicked by Sears. Score, 18 to 6. A minute later, time was called. The game was not very closely contested. Harvard seemed overmatched from the start. Princeton had very little difficulty in breaking through and Harvard could not get through Princeton's line...
Inasmuch as all nouns and verbs are declined and conjugated in this same way, it is easy to translate the sentence, selobs domis mane, we sell the house to the man. And as the adjective and adverb are always formed from the noun by the same ending, ik, iko, (fam, fame; famik, famous; famiko famously), there is never any irregularity; the whole language, after a few hours study, becomes merely a question of vocabulary...
...playing. Most of the other men seemed inferior to their Harvard opponents. The game was won by the Somervilles by three goals thrown in short order by Ross during the first half, and by 1 goal in the second made by the same player. Harvard's 2 goals were mane in the 2d, Twombly, and the second by Hood. Once during the game, the ball struck the Somerville goal post, but unluckily bounded back outside the goal. Some excuse for the demoralization of the Harvard defense during the first half of the game may be found in the fact that...
...shakes his mane ; he shakes his tail...