Word: roar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mile long. The horses have been especially noteworthy for their spirit and beauty. We join the huzzas of the Heidelbergers, of whom not one is silent. Even our friend on the roof - or in the roof - gives tongue with prodigious power and adds his contribution to the universal roar which pronounces the procession a glorious success...
...balconies filled with the fairest of New Haven beauties, and the streets crowded. The celebrated fences were occupied by a struggling throng of upperclassmen, who pushed and jostled each other in truly fraternal manner, waiting for the only victorious Yale team of 1885 to appear. A shout, then a roar, from the unwashed announce their appearance; down the long street in silence and precision the class of '88 marches with the proud team in advance and with blue banners flapping triumphantly to the breeze...
...GREAT RACEhad begun. Both crews caught the water well, though Harvard obtained a slight advantage. For a moment all was still; then, when it was seen that Harvard was going slowly to the front, a roar went up from the spectators on the train that must have been heard at the finish line. Both crews were pulling 40 strokes to the minute, yet at the half-mile stake the Yale men had fallen three lengths to the rear. This distance was covered by Harvard in 2m. 58s.; by Yale in 3m. 12s. Upon entering the second half-mile rough water...
...jealous as almost to grow to hate him. Why, a short time ago he dreamed of the end of the world; and the rocks were cleft, as he stood before the old University library at Cambridge. Suddenly the earth yawned, and there bustled out of the chasm, with a roar from a long silver trumpet, and the tintinnabulous sound of bells, the archangel, clad in white robes of dazzling brilliancy. From Thayer and Matthews and Hollis and Weld and Stoughton and Holworthy and Grays, rushed the frightened students. They stopped not to admire the classic features of the gleaming angel...
...banker. The professor's voice has a peculiar, rotund, impetuous quality, and it was never poured forth in greater volume than when he said in one of his lectures: "About this time Goethe fell in love with a rich banker's daughter in New York city." There was a roar from the students, while boots and canes rattled upon the floor like an avalanche of cobble stones in a shot tower. Boyesen covered his crimson face with his hands and turned his back to his class. That lecture was resumed on another...