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Word: skillful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some way smutched his Troy-laundried shirk bosom, obliging him to retire to the gymnasium in order to make a change. These were the only serious accidents of the game. The feature of the game was a remarkable play by the Yale endrush, who, catching the ball with skill which would have made Nausicaa and her maids turn green with envy, run with the speed of a winged Mercury toward Harvard's goal, at the same time displaying to full advantage, a row of pearl-like teeth, and a beautiful pair of side whiskers, through which the gentle zephyrs softly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/27/1885 | See Source »

Lamar, to whose skill Princeton owes her victory, is a nephew of Secretary Lamar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/24/1885 | See Source »

Princeton has defeated Yale on Yale's own grounds in a game that must, to say the least, have been intensely exciting. Our congratulations to Princeton are quite in order, and are heartily given. We believe that Princeton deserves her victory, both for her great energy and perseverance and skill in play, and for her extreme courtesy in the prolonged discussions with Yale over the time and the place of the game. So far as we can see, every concession that was made, was made by Princeton; Yale held out to the last with an apparently inexcusable obstinacy. While Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/23/1885 | See Source »

...Abolished. The ballot on the merits of the question resulted in, affirmative, 21; negative, 31. The principal disputants were F. H. Darling, L. S., and H. E. Fraser, '86, affirmative; and L. McK. Garrison, '88, and S. B. Rogers, L. S., negative. The negative won the victory on skill of argument by a vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Union. | 11/20/1885 | See Source »

...wonder, in view of these facts, that the microscope received much attention, and as early as the first part of the seventeenth century the "compound microscope" was invented. Henceforth the progress of the instrument was that of mechanical skill and scientific knowledge. The establishing of the theory of Achromatics, late in the last century, brought the microscope rapidly forward, and the date of 1807 finds us with an "a chromatic microscope," embracing all the main features of the present instrument...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Microscope. | 11/18/1885 | See Source »

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