Word: spot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...open air concerts of the spring evenings. There have been too few of these in recent years and they have been too perfunctory. Considerations of weather of course prevent any definite schedule, but if it became a custom for members of the Glee Club to gather at some spot in the Yard on warm evenings and sing for a little while merely for the pleasure of it, much would be done to cultivate more enjoyable popular singing, as well as to add a delightful touch to the Yard that has usually been experienced only on Class...
...ruling on the forward pass is worded as follows: "A forward pass illegally touched goes to opponents on the spot from which the pass was made, and on the passer's side only the man who first legally touches the ball may thereafter recover it until it has been touched by an opponent." As a penalty to enforce this measure it was ruled that "if a forward pass is legally touched and when free is touched by another player of the passer's side, the ball shall go to the opponents on the spot." The object of this rule...
...unfortunate that the Freshmen should again be hampered by the inefficiency or inobservance of the officials. Those appointed to referee the game not arriving in time, resort had to be made to others who happened to be on the spot, and as it turned out they were unsatisfactory. The Freshmen scored a touchdown in the first half when Peabody took the ball over the line but the officials decided it was a case of hurdling and the score was not allowed...
...daughter's apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When Venturewell finds that his daughter has not been spirited away by magic, he is so relieved that he forgives them both on the spot, and all "live happily ever after" except Ralph. The "Knight of the Burning Pestle" is furnished by the citizen with surprising battles and adventures, excluding his summary transportation to Moldavia, where the Sultan's daughter is compelled to fall in love with him. With the aid of Susan, his Dulcinea...
...cases of unlawful forward pass where the ball goes to the opponents on the spot where the pass was attempted, the ball is dead...