Word: side
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Again Grant advanced, this time massing his whole force on the west bank and getting supplies by the river. But Haines's Bluff had proved impregnable, and a landing on the south side was out of the question because supplies could not be brought down past the batteries...
Whatever else we have, there certainly ought to be non-partisanship in city affairs. There is no reason why local voting should be influenced by the national elections or why Democrats and Republicans should not sit side by side in the legislature, for offices are not sought here for private services, but should be filled by the most competent...
...height that it did in the last three weeks. The men who represented the college in the debate with Yale on last Friday were among the very best thinkers and speakers in the college, and the undergraduates and all, notwithstanding the admitted fact that Princeton had the worst side of the question, had the greatest confidence in the ability of our men to win from Yale. The debate was successful throughout and of the highest order of argument and oratory, and to Princeton men everything was eminently satisfactory except the outcome of the contest as given by the judges...
...Boston Athletic Association has extended an invitation to Harvard for a team race against the University of Pennsylvania at the B. A. A.'s regular winter meeting in February. Harvard will undoubtedly accept her side of the invitation...
...struggle had been fierce; the carnage equalled only at Shiloh. 10,000 were lost on each side, and from one Confederate regiment of 425 men, 306 were killed. In effect, Stone River was a drawn battle...