Word: start
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...settled that we are to have a musical college in the Central Park, and eclipse Cincinnati. Surrogate Calvin has admitted to probate Wood's will, giving $1,500,000 to the college. Freund is going to start a new weekly called Music, just in time to be the college organ, and has engaged Fred Archer as his organist. A Happy New Year to the wise Surrogate and the plucky editor...
...start forth in life with the same tastes, the same ambitions, the same prospects. They work together in the same office, perhaps at the same desk. At the end of five years what makes the difference between these two men? Why simply this, it seems to me, that one man has taken his clothing, as it were, ready-made, while the other...
...walked him around the course once, just to show him what he was expected to do, and then going around again to the start, I took the time, and gave him the word. The way that horse shot into space! I felt the sulky lengthening out under me. The pressure of the air was such that my ears, which nature erected at perfectly true right-angles with my head, lay back upon it as flat as if naturally coalescent. I shrieked at the flying steed that perhaps he had better save himself a little. Vain, futile words! they never reached...
...done. He was frightened, now, for the girl's sake; he shouted, "Tue! Tue! You will be lost! I promise not to touch you; only come here, and let us go home." But the girl did not answer; and after another unsuccessful search for her he was forced to start home without...
...sporting papers think that he could not have won anyhow. He again lowered the record, however, in the 1/4-mile run, covering the distance in 48 3-5 sec., thus beating his record of the previous Saturday by 2-5 of a second. For some unknown reason he did not start in the 1/2-mile run, although entered. In the 7-mile walk, Merrill fainted on the fourth mile, leaving Raby, his only remaining competitor, to finish as he pleased, Whyatt having retired, and Webster, who holds the best amateur record at the distance, 52 min. 34 sec., having been disqualified...