Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Paine, H. A. A.; Wright, H. A. A.; Taggard, B. Y. M. C. U. In the first two bouts Taggard and Duker defeated Paine and Wright respectively. In the third bout between Taggard and Duker, Taggard went for his opponent savagely, and knocked him out in one round, thus winning the medal...
...glad to see that the usual round of college lectures and readings is to be varied by a series of historical concerts, to be given by Prof. Paine, in Sever 11. The name of Prof. Paine is of itself a sufficient guarantee that these concerts will be of a high order, and well worth attending. Illustrating the progress and historical aspect of music by means of concerts, is something quite novel, at least in Cambridge, and cannot fail to draw a considerable audience from the lovers of the art, both those in college, and the many cultivated people who make...
...crime. There are quarters over which Ignorance and Vice brood like an eternal nightmare. Stunted and distorted human beings grovel in congenial ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets on the water-front go? What becomes of the vilest of their vile and the most abandoned of their lost ones, when they throw off the burden of their loathsome lives? They go into the water...
...minimum leap was set, and all those failing to cover this distance lost their chance to compete in the other events, which reduced the great number of contestants. The Greeks never leaped without weights, and used two sorts, first the dumbbell, which had a curved bar between the round ends, and of which the dumbbell in use at the present day is an imitation; second, the half of a flattened disk, with an orifice on the curved side for the hand; these they threw behind them when in mid-air, and this gave them additional impetus...
...usual round of club and society dinners may now be expected...