Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ball-field as they were by the audience which graced the benches of Holmes Field on Class Day afternoon; and never before had such a gathering greater cause for rejoicing in the success of their favorites than did the numberless friends of Harvard on that victorious day. They saw a record of severe defeat wiped out by corresponding triumph, yes, more than corresponding. Five to Zero was overwhelmed, submerged, buried deep beyond the possibility of resurrection, while Ten to One was written out in letters of light equally legible on the smiling faces of Harvard and the mournful visage...
...start was made. The crews got away about equally, both settling down to 34 strokes a minute. When the railroad bridge was reached. Harvard had dropped her stroke to 33 1/2; and her bow was slowly and surely coming ahead of Yale's. Yale saw this and quickened her stroke to 35 1/2; but still the Harvard "beef" pounded away at her 33 1/2, and now at the one-mile flag, her stern was even with the Yale bow. Now Yale began to spurt for the corner, and her stroke rose to 38. Harvard responded, and at the two-mile...
...corners, but found no studs. It was full of handkerchiefs. As I turned them over, to search between them, I found a little one with a monogram on the corner. It was rumpled, but carefully folded. I showed it to him, unfolding it as I did so, and saw a brown spot on it, near the middle...
...never saw any one so surprised. 'Why, Cousin Harry,' said she, and she opened her great eyes at me; 'you don't smoke, do you?' And then we went through the old argument again. I've had it with my sister thousands of times, but it had quite a novel feeling to have your belle cousine for an antagonist. I declare, she seemed so earnest about it, and so sorry that I had formed the habit, that I felt quite complimented, but I was rather uncomfortable...
...without the slightest hesitation. The first indications were by no means promising, however, and the youthful Keltic mind did not seem to grasp the true spirit of the reform. Many strange inconsistencies were noticed at first. For instance, a small boy who saluted an elderly gentleman with much politeness saw nothing inappropriate, when beyond the reach of the gentleman's cane, in addressing him in terms more familiar than complimentary; a youth whose manners were very winning, and who had even attained some degree of perfection in tying a cravat, was in the constant habit of securing tin cans...