Word: straightway
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter was received last Friday from the University of Pennsylvania freshmen, challenging the Yale freshmen to a two-mile straightway, eight-oared race at New London. At a meeting of the Yale freshmen Monday night it was voted to accept the challenge. The race will probably be rowed the same day as the Harvard-Yale University race. The Yale freshman feel very bitter against the Harvard freshmen for their refusal to permit the Yale crew to participate in the Harvard-Columbia freshman race, and if Yale defeats the Pennsylvania crew, it is proposed to challenge the winner of the Harvard...
...criminal intimacy with the Edinburg women; in short, Maria has me without a rival." This would seem like a most satisfactory condition of affairs, but the fickle heart of Boswell could never remain true to anyone. He hears Miss Blair is really in love with him after all, and straightway his heart goes out to her. But only for a week. On receiving a letter from Ireland, he tells us, "all the charms of sweet Mary Anne revived," and he became true to his old love once more. To cut a long story short, I would say, as sympathetically...
...where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such a poetical way Boswell was not shaped enough on the Greek model to make such wooing a complete artistic success, for he straightway begins to feel that his suit is not prospering, and summons a friend to help him. His friend was to visit the 'divinity' at her home, and plead for him; and Boswell sent him the following "Instructions:" "Set out in the fly on Monday morning. Take tickets for Friday...
...86the street and 8th avenue. It is there that the inter-collegiate games will be held this spring. "this should be called the prince of cinder paths, and we will explainwhy. It is a quarter mile in circuit, and down one side runs a 220-yard straightway. It was built last spring, and with a season's frost, should, by May 24th, with proper care, be in splendid condition. Its sides are 150 yards straight, and its curves 70 yards. This latter is the only drawback. But the straight do a great deal to offset this. The 220 yard straight...
...thoughtless persons, towards the end, to leave their places and stand nearer the line without paying any attention to the fact that they were obstructing the view of those behind. This had the effect of bringing those who could not see as well into the line and straightway those on the lower tiers of seats were compelled to abandon them if they wished to see anything of the game. Such a thing is thoughtless or else contemptible in those who first move forward, and in either case an end ought to be made of the practice. If some definite regulation...