Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...invite Mr. F. G. Brown, of the Nassau Boat Club to act as referee at the coming race between Columbia and Harvard on the 18th. Mr. Brown, as will be remembered, acted in the same capacity last year, with satisfaction to both parties. On returning home from the evening pull, our crew had a lively brush with the Columbia freshmen, in which the latter, although beaten, showed themselves a good crew, and one likely to make it warm for the Harvard freshmen when they meet on the 25th. Sunday the crew spent the day with Mr. Gardner Greene Hammond...
Yesterday afternoon, despite the unpleasant weather, a large crowd of men, numbering between one and two hundred, strolled to the riverside and crowed the edge of the boat-house platform, all eager to see the University crew take their last pull of the year upon the Charles. At about half-past four, the two substitutes, Keith and Yocum, '85, came out, and placing their pair-oar lapstreak in the water pulled away with a swinging stroke toward the lower basin. Hardly were they out of sight when Captain Perkins gave the orders to bring out the new shell. The boat...
...Spirit of the Times severely censures the mismanagement by which the tug-of-war teams from Yale and Columbia were allowed to pull against teams already wearied by previous pulls, while they were fresh from their...
...writer then makes the assertion that Matthew Arnold, the apostle of "sweetness and light," as well as Mrs. Langtry are both guilty of having used the phrase "pull myself together," but says in defence of its use that such a phrase is hardly slang when it "has passed as current by writers who have been set up as example of style." On the other hand, he continues: "It were to continue the discussion to an undue length to cite instances where certain words or phrases put under the ban, charged with being Americanisms, have been proved to be English...
...last event, except the final pull of the tug-of-war, already described, was the final heat...