Word: refitment
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...Thanksgiving Day one of the best boxing shows witnessed hereabouts in recent years. . . . The initial bout brought together two fast and talented colored boys, Jackson and Lawrence. . . . Addison and Madison, two colored welters, followed and swapped punches through four lively rounds. . . . This is an ideal place for men to refit morally and physically for the battle of life and go home brimful of health and vitality...
...remembered, conditions had to be exactly right; the sea could not be too choppy, yet there had to be enough wind to make it a race. If the weather kicked up rough at all, one or the other of the boats would carry away a topmast and have to refit...
...council of the Harvard Federation of Territorial Clubs held its first meeting yesterday afternoon in the new club room in the Union. With the exception of the president of the Ohio Club, the representatives present unanimously decided to accept the generous offer of the Harvard Union to refit the room especially for the use of the clubs. The room will be ready for use Monday, February 24. The room will be formally opened with a smoker early in the first week of March at which ex-President Eliot has consented to speak...
...direction which, we venture to assert, no one has ever suspected. It is the custom of the college to encourage interior decoration by paying the cost of the paper-hanging whenever a student re-papers his room. With this custom in mind a student recently engaged workmen to refit his room. After the work of re-papering was completed, he called upon the proper officer of the college to receive the customary allowance. This functionary expressed a wish to view the improvements, and was conducted to the room in question, which he closely inspected, and then, with an ominous shake...