Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale team defeated Michigan Wednesday by a score of ten goals and two touchdowns to two safeties. The Yale team was composed as follows: Rushers, Knapp, McCrary, Williams, Hull, Peters, Bertron, Farwell; quarter-back, Twombly; half-backs, Richards and Terry; full back, Bacon...
...Rugby team to go east, as chosen by the committee, Olcott, Dott and Hutchinson, will probably consist of E. E. Beach, Bitner, Prettyman, list, Borden, Dott, and Killilea laws, forward; McNeil, lit, quarter-back; Gemmell, lit, and Moore, medic, half-back ; Olcott, lit, three-quarter back; and Gilmore, lit. goal keeper. The substitutes will very likely be Bonine, medic, and Wright, law. [Chronicle...
Most girls have weak arms. If they doubt it, let them try with one hand to push up once high over their head a dumb-bell weighing a quarter or even a fifth of their own weight. Or with both hands catching hold of a bar or the rung of a ladder, as high up as they can reach, let them see if they can pull slowly up till the chin touches the hands. Yet a moderately strong man at dumb-bells will push up one weighing over half his own weight, and some men have managed...
...begin not sooner than four o'clock. This rule has always been a very disagreeable one, especially in the foot-ball season, as the amount of daylight after four o'clock is very limited. As a result, the games are generally played two half-hours instead of two three-quarters as is the regular rule of the game, and in spite of this the latter part of the games are generally played in semidarkness. Since the adoption of the new time standard, the rule has become more objectionable than ever before. According to the present arrangement, play cannot begin until...
...stock of "dishes, swages, and porringers" was laid in, the cost being 9 1-2d. a pound. The duty of looking after the pewter, and collecting and counting it after each meal, fell on "young Ablinson," the cook's son, who got a trifle every quarter for his pains. He could not expect much, seeing that his father only got 10s. a half-year for his salary, and the "subcoquo" a miserable 3s. 4d. [Gentleman's Magazine...