Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Poor Eli's hopes we are dashing...
...give the University eight a very hard fight. The third crew has also suffered much from repeated changes. Its chances, however, of making a hard race, have greatly increased since Wiggins has been stroking the boat, although the crew is hardly together and the slide work at times is poor...
...pleasant days the work will be outside and on poor days in the cage. There is much more chance now for individual coaching, and all men should come regularly and benefit by this opportunity...
...When the second team had the ball he was used on the secondary defence. Goodale was back in his regular position at left guard and strengthened the left wing perceptibly. Cutler took Jones's place at centre, the latter going to the second squad, where his poor passing was noticeable. Lawson and Brown did well for the second, the former recovering a 20-yard forward pass on the first team's 3-yard line and making a touchdown from it, and the latter executing two perfect forward passes and making a quarterback run of 15 yards. The first team...
...came the blight upon the potato and millions found themselves face to face with starvation, and families died along the roadside by thousands. The famine was followed by the plague, and then came almost the worst calamity of the three. The landlord himself was almost starving and had grown poor, consequently he raised the rent and evicted those who could not pay. Hundreds of thousands of people were turned from their farms...