Word: ran
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...foot to arrest it; the mass X velocity was too much for the farmer; the ball continued on in the "even tenor of its ways" with about two thirds of his leg. This deliberate appropriation of his own personal property so enraged the honest man that he ran after the ball (pretty good for a man with one leg), and bringing it home put it in his cellar. Like the famous "old lady who lived under the hill," if it has not gone, it is lying there still...
...gave unto Cute the gold, and led the way. And when his back was turned, Cute turned about, and ran, and bore away both the gold and the fruit...
When all the Yankees ran away, why, Grandsir he ran too, - Which, Silas, if he had n't done, there...
...Blackheathen gives an account of the athletic sports at Blackheath School, which is very creditable to the boys. The 120 yds. hurdle-race (for boys over 15) was won in 17 sec; and a half-mile race (under 15) in 2 min. 36 sec. A boy under 12 ran 100 yds. in 14 1/2 sec.; and a boy under 11 the same distance in 18 sec. Finally, after a number of races of various sorts, an "Old Boys' Race" of 440 yds., which was won in 55 1/2 sec., concluded the sports...
...Fact.MR. WETHERBEE, '78, met with quite a serious accident in the Foot-Ball match on Tuesday afternoon. One of the opposite side ran against him, he was thrown down, and his collar-bone was fractured. The bone has been set, and we understand that he is now in quite a comfortable condition...