Word: slimly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seems a pity that more men should not have entered for some of the events. There seems to have been wanting a proper amount of interest and energy among those who are qualified to take part in these contests. The list of entries taken all together is a remarkably slim one. Only fourteen men have entered, exclusive of the tug-of-war teams, for eight events. Of these eight there are three which will be walkovers, leaving three cups to be contested for together with the trial heat of the tug-of-war. Besides these regular events the contest...
...nothing else. He selects lads with strong legs and slight upper works, and keeps them at running or football kicking until they have the legs of Hercules under the arms and chest of a school girl. He picks out boys with strong arms and full chests, but slim legs, and puts them at dumbbells, or rings, or bars, or ladders, until they are Sampsons above, grafted upon pigmies below. Probably one tenth of the students are thus selected for transformation into illy-balanced, unevenly developed specialties, looking something like the grotesque and abnormal figures seen on Chinese fans, while...
...grounds. Then a stout Princeton man stepped out and spent several minutes in finding a place to put the ball. Having selected a suitable spot he brought out an egg-shaped article covered with yellow leather and deposited it with tender care on the spot. Then a slim boyish looking fellow took half a dozen quick steps forward and let out at the ball with all the grace and force of the hereafter of a Kentucky mule. The ball sailed away into the air, and the entire crowd went tearing after it. It came down and bounded once. A Wesleyan...
...better day than Saturday could have been chosen for the lacrosse tournament for the Oelrich cup, at the New York Polo Grounds, the weather being perfect. The audience was rather slim, but interested; the fair sex following the fortumes of New York University as a rule, while the knowing ones were there to see "our city club scoop her in again." Six teams entered - New York, Bloom-field, Princeton, N. Y. University, Yale and Harvard, the rules being to play for an hour, unless one side made three goals before that time. Yale and Harvard were first drawn, and faced...