Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foul, the Yale umpire calls the attention of the referee to another part of the field. The moment this is effected the play is started, the foul made, the advantage gained and the referee has seen nothing. These signals were all pre-arranged, and we are told and indeed saw that "they worked beautifully...
...very few important additions or emendations. He had begun the study of law in his youth as an experiment, but for various reasons had turned his attention to medicine. While in the Law School he had engaged with some friends in publishing a paper, and for the first time saw himself in print. From the printer's type he contracted the disease of author's lead poisoning, which he had never quite got rid of. He began the study of medicine, as most young men do, with a quickened pulse at the sight of the grinning skeletons of the school...
...over all parts of the building in the hope that some one might have carelessly moved it from its place. It could not be found in the building, and I was about to leave when I cast my eyes through the north window, and, strange to say, there I saw my net stretched across another man's court. At first I concluded that the "borrowers" must be some innocent freshmen, who doubtless supposed that the nets were public property, furnished by the college authorities for the general use of the students; but, to my surprise, they were seniors...
...Hill in his lecture in Sophomore Rhetoric yesterday said that in Jonathan Edwards' time there was a girl of great beauty and intelligence in New Haven. She is there still. We saw her at the ball game in the spring - she wore the crimson...
When Capt. Cowles saw Capt. Hammond he asked him about the hour for rowing, and Mr. Hammond then said he believed 12 M. would be the proper time, as he thought it would be high tide that day at about 10 A. M. Nothing further was said about the hour for the race until Saturday, July 1, when the Columbia crew, on their way to New London on their launch, stopped at the Harvard quarters. The captains then had an interview, and Mr. Cowles said he found the tide would be flood until 11.30 A. M., on Monday, and consequently...