Word: moment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ambition. He was then forced to throw himself into the arms of his former opponents, and his successes have been due to conservative votes, and not to his personal following. The conservatives only use him as a weapon against the republicans, and are ready to desert him at any moment...
...sparring, is, I believe, to make the class known as the featherweight, include all men whose weight is, or under, 125 pounds. To a person unaccustomed to the ring a matter of four or five pounds in the difference in weight of the two contestants is of no moment. A difference of a few pounds in the weight of two heavyweights would not be considered of much importance; but this disparity in the case of featherweights is of the greatest moment. The difference in the comparative strength of the blows delivered by the 125-pound man and those...
...enforced and for no other reason. We should in every case give obedience to the laws, and always hold them sacred. The choir rendered in an appropriate manner, the following anthems: "There is spring up a light for the righteous," by Armes; "For his wrath endures but for a moment," by Smart; for adult voices; "God who madest earth and heaven...
...second half, Cambridge started off with the ball and by a series of vigorous rushes brought it to Harvard's line. Burns soon made a touchdown. No goal. For the rest of the half Harvard kept the ball well up into Cambridge territory and a moment before time was called, Brooks made a good sport across the line and scored a touchdown. Goal by Forbes. Brooks, Forbes and Draper all rushed well for Harvard and Newell did the best work in the rush-line. Corbitt's rushes for Cambridge were a feature of the game. Following were the teams...
...change of Harvard's athletic policy, which I ask to be noted as the pith of this letter. Under the present system where students are at a loss to know what will be done next, or whether their outlays and training may be made naught at the last moment by some unlooked-for rule of novelty, it is not to be wonder that the teams are supported by the college listlessly, and that they themselves play with a feeling of indifference and a proneness to lay their continued defeats at the door of the faculty under whose regulations they labor...