Word: sail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...grind is never a bold, bad man. He is just the opposite. He can give you the length in parasangs of Xenephon's march to the sea; he can sketch for you a technical plan of Olympus; he can tell you the exact size of the sail-cloth in which Helen, the divine of women, was wrapped when the lily-like voiced ancients threw one to the other the winged word, as she passed them by; he can tell you who was the grandmother of Apollo; in fine he can tell you almost anything, but he is not a "bold...
CANOE CLUB. - The fall regatta will be held to-morrow on the Charles River Basin. Two races will be contested; one set at 11 o'clock, a class B unlimit-sailing race over a three mile triangular course; the other a limited sail area race for class B canoes. First and second prizes to consist of silk banners are offered for each race...
...world had come. Their red paint spread all over them like oil on troubled waters. Their faces were scratched and their trousers were torn. They looked sad and goreful. Sophomore Parker performed ground and lofty tumbling. He was occasionally seen to rise in the air and sail horizontally over the outskirts of the cloud. He usually came down on a freshman's head. When he did the freshman fell, 'and, falling, he uttered a groan and darkness covered his eyes.' In one of sophomore Parker's leaps he jumped clear out of his trousers, and thence-forth his costume...
...Brine of 10-11 Harvard Row, will sail for Europe the 1st of July. Students wanting to order English goods, can have them delivered the 1st of August by leaving orders at J. W. Brine's, Harvard Row, Cambridge...
...Brine of 10-11 Harvard Row, will sail for Europe the 1st of July. Students wanting to order English goods, can have them delivered the 1st of August by leaving orders at J. W. Brine's, Harvard Row, Cambridge...