Word: ran
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...accompanied with the usual threats in case of their refusal. It may occur to many of our modern student readers to wonder how such conduct could be reconciled with the principles which even in those darkened days must have been present with the perpetrators, and where the boundary-line ran between it and the highway assault and robbery. Such, however, was the false reasoning of drink-loving students that they argued: "What I now plunder from you, you may in turn plunder from those who will soon be in your position, and may sanction go with...
...Rogers ran a hundred yards at Beacon Park lately, as timed by three watches, in 10 seconds. This does not stand as a record, however...
...Manhattan games Saturday, Baker, '86, broke the amateur 125-yards record, making the distance in 12 3 5s. The former record was 13 seconds. He also ran an exhibition 300 yards...
...Cornell, or Lund of Harvard, fully 10 feet behind his leaders. Next came Baker, of Harvard; Bonine, of Michigan, and either Lund or Horr, almost exactly abreast, Bonine, if anything, a shade behind the others. A few feet in front of this row, and close to the inner curb, ran Rogers, of Harvard, while Sherrill, of Yale, was in the middle of the path, and so nearly in front of Lund (or Horr) that the picture shows, only part of his head, part of each shoulder, a thin strip of his left side from...
...Sheppard got his first on an error. He was touched out at second by Edgerly in a very clever manner. Edgerly held the ball, Phillips ran home as if to dispute the umpire's decision, Sheppard started for third and Edgerly touched him out to the great delight of the spectators. Foster caught a terrific drive of Brigham's, and Dann struck out. Harvard drew a blank...